I'm more pointing out that there is a history of political violence that undermined the country's economic conditions. Famine doesn't come only from a drought o

I'm more pointing out that there is a history of political violence that undermined the country's economic conditions. Famine doesn't come only from a drought or a land use change, but most disastrously occurs with more basic political and economic breakdown. This is something that it easy to forget or ignore from a privileged position in the US. The US has been at war in Somalia just as part of the GWOT for basically a decade, yet with so little press and attention in the US press that the cost and benefit to regional stability is never discussed, for example. It's the article's use of the mid-1980s famines as a hook for discussing economic development as a technical land-use issue that makes the omission more glaring. And it would be a more interesting article, to consider the history of efforts to abolish feudal land tenure, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Ethiopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Ethiopia I'm curious about the use of compulsory collective agricultural labor that has made this possible, though ;)