How can famines be prevented?
… misery having suffered terrible famines due to governmental policies, climate conditions, pressures from international debt and war, issues that contribute to support Sens approach. Prior to the war with Eritrea the Ethiopian government had made great strides to improving the country with very limited recourses. In the fight against famine they had stored thousands of tones of grain to enable an immediate reaction to food shortages, however, stocks were depleted due to them being redirected to the army. Projects to build dams along some of its main rivers which would not only have helped in times of low rains but with irrigation and droughts were abandoned. War impacts the economy reducing the labor force by subscripting able boded men; monies are also being diverted away from feeding the hungry to buying expensive war materials. For these governments who continually engage in war and witness death so frequently it is difficult …
