Assess The Role Of Malnutrition In Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a country that creates image of starving. In 1980, many countries of east Africa had drought, and political unrest so people displaced from their shelter to camping, In addition when people moves to other place from their village or town, due to civil war, it is hard to produce crops or grain for food. Therefore those all causes refuges who lives in camps specifically in Ethiopia in 1980. During that time Ethiopia asked aid for the United Nations so the united nation were showing to the world about Ethiopian famine so that it could get assistance from the world. European countries and America assisted to Ethiopia to receive food, medicine, and other material. While Ethiopian economic is growing fast in the world by 10.3 per year

In Ethiopia, there is usually plenty of rain, and the farmers do not have to irrigate their crops. On the other hand, Somalia is very hot and dry farmers can only grow crops near a river an oasis or where they can use irrigation. This makes it very difficult for the Ethiopians to grow food, and they have suffered severe drought several times since the 1980s Lack of rainfall also makes it very difficult for them to raise livestock. Ethiopia has suffered from famines, and many people have died from hunger there. One way farmers can try to overcome the effects of rainfall is to plant a large variety of crops some that need alot of rain and some that can survive with very little rain. This way hopefully they can grow enough crops to stay subsistent which means they and feed and nourish their

Ethiopia is a country located in east central Africa. Its area is approximately 1.1 million square kilometres, with a population of around 102 million (2016). Ethiopia's capitol, Addis Baba is located at 8.9806° N, 38.7578° E. Addis Baba is situated in central Ethiopia, it is approximately 2464 kilometres south south East of Cairo the capitol of Egypt. The country is bordered by 6 other countries;

Environmental factors are a factor that affect living and nonliving organisms and have participated in Ethiopia’s problem in food deficiency and food insecurity. A large environmental factor that can affect food deficiency and food insecurity is natural hazards and disasters. These can include droughts and floods which can upset agricultural production. For example, grain production and stocks are very low and droughts have hit harvests in grain-producing areas around the world. A more specific example for Ethiopia is that because of Ethiopia’s seasonal rainfall from mid-June to mid-September, soil erosion and

To compound the issues, in the last two years limited rain fall has caused the worst drought in over 60 years. The already overwrought food situation exponentially worsted as crops and livestock die due to water shortages. As a result the numbers of refugees have recently increased dramatically, with over 330,000 Somalis seeking refuge since January of 2011, (UNHCR, 2011).

Malnutrition continues to be a major health burden throughout the developing world, especially in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Each form of malnutrition depends on what nutrients are missing in the diet, for how long and at what age. The most basic kind results from a deficiency in all major macronutrients, such as fats, proteins and carbohydrates, called protein-energy malnutrition. Other forms of malnutrition are less obvious, but not necessarily less deadly. They are usually the result of a diet lacking in micronutrients, such as electrolytes, minerals and vitamins. Deficiencies of iron, vitamin A and zinc are ranked among the World Health Organization's top 10 leading causes of death through disease in developing countries. (WFP,

There are several risk factors that impact children’s health in Ethiopia. For example, vitamin A deficiency stunts children’s growth. Mothers are unable to properly breastfeed so the child doesn’t fully develop as they should. Immune systems weaken in children as well, causing them to die from diseases that are easily treatable. Since the HIV/aids rate is so high in women, children also are transmitted the disease and end up dying. Another factor is that children don’t receive proper care from their families or health services. It is also estimated that over 150,000 children live on the streets in Ethiopian cities (Humanium • We make children's rights happen, 2017). That results in improper hygiene and lack of sanitation. As mentioned already,

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution set out to guarantee the equal rights of citizens. It decrees, “No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property...nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. Despite this written assertion of seeming equality for all citizens, various groups faced hardships and discrimination in the century following the Fourteenth Amendment's ratification. This amendment would continuously interpreted and reinterpreted as social movements cited it as cause for their mobilization and activism. Two social advocacy movements were (and are) the Civil Rights movement that gained momentum in the 1960s and the Disability Rights Movement of the 1970s.

Education is very important for everyone to have but many of the schools that were located within Somalia are gone, “In Central South Somalia more than three quarters of public schools that existed before the civil war have been destroyed and/or closed and state intervention in the education sector has been limited.” (Education in Somalia, n.d. para. 2). Meaning that many of the children who live in Somalia, are not getting a proper education. Even if they go to receive an education, they are not there for very long, “Children are in school for an average of only three years, with 50 percent of the child population contributing to the work force.” (Poverty in Somalia, n.d. para. 9). Because these people live in such poverty, these children choose to work to earn some money instead of receiving an education. Many people in the country are illiterate, “Only 37.8 percent of the population over the age of 15 can read and write.” (Poverty in Somalia, n.d. para. 8). Because of these facts, many of the Somalian people cannot get better jobs. This also makes it extremely difficult for the Somalian people to go to different countries in search for a better life. These are the reasons why the education of the Somalian people have a major effect on the high poverty levels in the

Malnutrition is the lack of proper nutrition, caused by an insufficient quantity or quality of food being consumed. People in poverty are the most affected by malnutrition. In fact, “several studies have reported that poverty, inadequate access to a balance diet and underlying diseases (tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, etc.) contribute to high levels of malnutrition” (Juma). “Death and disease in developing countries are often primarily a result of malnutrition,” which disproportionately harms those in poverty (Juma). Thus, malnutrition disproportionately harms people in poverty but can be prevented through a conscious effort to offer nutritious food to these people.

Have you ever skipped a meal and realized how hungry you were? Now imagine skipping all your meals, imagine not having the option to get food and worst of all, imagine watching a loved family member die of hunger. This is what hundreds of thousands of Somalians went through during the famine. Half of the killed were children under the age of five, this being said this was one of the worst famines in the last 28 years. Tens of thousands of Somalians fled their homes in search of food. The main part of the famine took place in 2011 when an extreme drought affected more than thirteen million people across the horn of Africa. In result of this drought, prices for food skyrocketed; parents watched helplessly as their family members died one by one. Political instability made the chances of the famine getting better as quick as

12.7 million smallholders don’t have the resources or money to deal with the changes in weather which means they are likely to not have enough food or water ending in food insecurity. There are 730,000 refugees who all need food which the people who already liv there don’t have and they also don’t have the skills to help grow and produce food. The refugees are causing the little food Ethiopia have to disappear quickly

All throughout Ethiopia’s history there has never been a famine so disastrous as the one that occurred 1984. Throughout the period of drought and misery a total of eight million people were at risk of starvation. Not only that but in october 1984 the death toll was at two hundred thousand and an estimated of two thousand people would die each day. As each month changed so did the death toll. Though the relationship was the more time that passed the more people were at risk. (Nwaozuzu). Reporters who visited to help said that “People looked more like skeletons than human beings” (Fradin 55). There was also recorded to be a 5 year old that only weighed 27 pounds, less than a small dog (Thurow). Altogether, almost all the population of Ethiopia was effected by the Famine.

From there the people, land, and globally worldwide view of what can be done to stop the negative results of the drought:With so little resources East Africa uses what they have chicken blood is used as a treatment to a malnourished person (Stewart, 2011). Immunizations

The scorching heat from the sun has made it’s grand appearance, with no desire to leave anytime soon. California is in its fourth consecutive year of drought, this year being the worst. California’s nearly $30 billion agricultural export industry has hit rock bottom. This is a huge issue considering California produces two-thirds of the United States’ produce. The people of the United States feel unstable because of the lack of produce in the near future. On the other hand, in 2011, Eastern Africa experienced a drought which resulted in an average of 10,000 deaths per day. The reason so many deaths occurred was because of the lack of water needed to grow food, resulting in less food for the native men, women and children. Does this drought in Africa really make such an extreme impact as to that of California’s? The difference of sustainability in first world countries as to third world countries is astonishing. Countries with fewer resources lack the sustainability, whereas countries with plenty of resources, do not. These two similar situations differ because of the need to solve the problem at hand: drought.