According to Plan Ethiopia, an aid service for the shortage problem, over the past three years the food shortage has been increasing (http://www.plan-uk.org/wherewework/eastafricaeurope/ethiopia/foodshortage/situation/). Along with the population problem, there are several factors contributing to the food insecurity in Ethiopia: weather, poverty, shortage of food banks and disfavoring of women and children. 85% of the people in Ethiopia rely on crops as their food supply, as well as income. With the severe droughts and even in torrential rains, the crop fields are ruined (http://www.plan-uk.org/). Another factor to the food insecurity is the shortage of local Food Banks as well as donors. Nairobi Bureau Chief Catherine Bond states that “last year major food aid donors such as the United States and the U

The definition of population explosion is “the exponential increase observed to occur in a population when or if conditions are such that a large percentage of the offspring are able to survive and reproduce in turn” (Nebel, Wright). The population of Ethiopia has grown exponentially. It is currently ranked 17th population-wise with an estimated 71 million people, but researchers feel that by 2050, the rank will heighten to 10th and the population will then be 173 million (http://allafrica.com/). The root cause of this explosion is polygamy, the practice of having more than one wife. Columnists for AllAfrica.com state that according to FEWS (Famine Early Warning System), “polygamy is fueling a population explosion in impoverished southern Ethiopia, which in turn compounds the food crisis” (http://allafrica.com/stories/200309080166.html). Although polygamy is said to be declining, it still is the major factor of food insecurity. When a man has several wives, he also has several children to each wife. The bigger the family, the more food that has to be bought, harvested, or even donated. For only so long can these families keep a healthy intake of food because it either runs out, or too much money is put towards it. Since the population explosion and the custom of the parents dividing up their land between t

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