1.0 link 130983 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-nabhan/post_197_b_130983.html In mid-September, John Holmes of United Nations announced that the mounting famine in Ethiopia and other countries in the Horn of Africa may dwarf the severity of similar famines in the 1980s and 1990s. While humanitarian concern and speedy on-ground action are surely justified, we must ask why this famine is being predicted to be more devastating than others in the past, and how (or to whom) this 700 million dollars of proposed relief will be targeted. Like current questions...

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