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04 Oct 05:45am

Filed under: Africa, African Famine, Bovine, Cows, Malnutrition, Poverty

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for some months, you will realise that people are starving in the Horn of Africa.

A first-world cow causing misery. Pic: Flickr

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation considers 12 million people at risk in a region that includes Ethiopia (82m), Kenya (39m), Somalia (9m), Uganda (32m) and little Djibouti (1m). The figures in brackets are national populations and imply that 12 million is only only about 7 per cent of people in the region.

But you know the risk to each and every one of them is serious when Bob Geldof is wheeled out in a suit. Geldof, in a recent press conference, felt compelled to remind people that those at risk are intelligent, creative and resilient people who are suffering enormously.

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Geoff Russell says:

10:58pm | 05/10/11

I gave the school garden example to be concrete. The Kenyan project has, according to the article linked above, touched 55,000 herders, so it isn’t insignificant. But it is precisely the scale of the Heifer projects that make them so damaging. Consider, if you will the situation in Australia during… Read more »
marley says:

06:04pm | 05/10/11

I should have done a bit of research into this article earlier. Ive just had a look at the project being funded by the Gates Foundation and Heifer International (which has nothing to do with Ethiopia) and also at one project which Heifer itself is funding in Ethiopia. This article,… Read more »

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