JAN 31 2009 (Dagmawi Blog)– About Five Million Ethiopians Need Food Aid. WHY? After 18 years of a supposedly pro-farmer government, why are we still here? Look at the figure below from the World Bank Report (2008): Ethiopia Agriculture and Rural Development Public Expenditure Review 1997/98 - 2005/06. The TPLF/EPRDF could not even restore per capita agricultural GDP to levels beyond that of the war-torn Mengistu era. This is despite a huge increase in spending (driven largely by foreign aid)
The problem with the Derg and the TPLF/EPRDF is the same. The world has known for many years now that socialized agriculture produces poor results. But the TPLF/EPRDF is intensifying its control of the countryside. Its cadre system controls fertilizer distribution. Its rural cadres control land distribution. Its party-affiliated companies control marketing. Its cadres control microfinance institutions. Private enterprises are squeezed out. Surplus from this agricultural “rent-seeking” goes to fund TPLF/EPRDF party work. Its a vicious cycle of control.
Even if the TPLFs monopoly control of agricultural inputs and outputs was a good idea, the centralized, top-down, Leninist organization of the TPLF limits the efficiency of the system.
- “Autocratic hierarchies have to contend with limitations on their performance because of weak accountability and insufficient flows of information. Their top-down, closed structure chokes off information from outside sources and distorts it, due to imperatives of political control.”"Closed political systems are prone to policy mistakes arising from bad information. The historical record of tyrannies, despotisms, and dictatorships bears this out.”— D. Deudney and G.J. Ikenberry, The Myth of Autocratic Revival - Why Liberal Democracy Will Prevail. Foreign Policy, January/February 2009
But some people have lots of food. Ethiopia, the most starvation-prone country in the world, has probably the most obese president in the world. Obese leaders in a famine country - a fitting symbol of “revolutionary democracy”.
February 1st, 2009 at 6:22 am
What would you expect from a goverment whose secretary of agriculture is a man with physical education background?
February 1st, 2009 at 6:57 am
ki ki ki ki ….langano that was very funny!
February 1st, 2009 at 10:50 am
The quickest way to increase per capital income (GDP/pop) woyane style has been to slash population figures from those ethnics they call “neftegna”- amhara and gurage. Yet look what the numbers are telling!
February 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am
The Amhara dominated governments ruled Ethiopia for the last 100+ years, in the result they destroyed the country incorrigble beyond imagination. The only legacy the Amhara dominated governments attributed to Ethiopia is Mass starvation,War,Illitract,Tribalism,Technological backwardness,Mass genocidal crime against Oromo-Tigrean and Eritreans, culture of tribalism/narrow mindedness.
It will take seven generations to correct and fix the socioeconomic mess the Amhara dominated governments caused.
February 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
getachew mequanent, get life you pennyless scumbag: there is more to life than demonizing amhara. You know the truth in your hurt, but you are trying to deny that, or worse you are putting articial facts into your head as you read it from aigaforum.
In both cases you need to see a doctor ASAP. you need help. looooooool
February 1st, 2009 at 11:45 am
I am surprise, only five millions required food aid, considering where the country been for the last several decades, this is the country spent millions of dollars per a fighter jet to bomb its own citizens, while millions of Ethiopians dieing of starvation.
Will the present government of Ethiopia make Ethiopia like another America in the next 20 or 40 years ? Not a chance.
February 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am
Thank you! Mr. Langano,
It is the truth, you nailed it.
For the past 100 years all education opportunity and educational access was given in discrimination to Amhara tribes only by Amhara dominated governments in order to creat and preserve amhara aristocracy class through arteficial means of educational discrimination.
Oromos,Tigreans and all other non Amhara Ethiopians were denied same opportunity and kept illitrate, this is why all higher learning institutions High schools,colleges,universities discriminatelly erected in amhara dominated regions only for the last 100 years.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:49 pm
China, Cuba, Vietnam etc have nationalised land and yet have surplus in agricultural production. Dagmawi is an idiot, who does not see things relatively. There are policy mistakes under the totalitarian regime of Meles Zenawi. But the state ownership of land is not the main cause of agricultural underproduction.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Tesfaye
Learn first so that you wont be ignorant as u r now
February 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
EU Summit is underway in Ethiopia.
The new elected president of somalia is in Addis.
Eritrea is on the verge of total collapse.
Assab port is considered by Ethiopia.
Eritreans are in mass exodus a few of them in the army will be taken to sudan.
Ethiopia almost take care of eritreans refugee to its capacity.
Isayas smuggle full container of bread for himsrlf from italy.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Gashaw,
Good point.
February 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Gambella=Hagos
THIS IS THE ONLY TRAINING THAT YOU TOOK IN THE WOYANNE ELEMENTARY CADRE TRAINING SCHOOL (THEY DONT HAVE THE CAPACITY EVEN IF THEY TRY TO TRAIN YOU IN HIGHER CENTER)THEY HAVE GIVEN YOU A TRAINING FAR BEYOND YOUR REACH THEY PUT YOU ONLY IN THE INFERIORIY COMPLEX SITUATION WHICH WILL BE VERY HARD TO TACKLE IT
February 1st, 2009 at 3:50 pm
`Dagmawi,
Thank you for your matured and statistically proven facts.. Great Analysis
February 1st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I think Gambella is a person from open university or civil college where monkeys with no idea go to school, he may also be a parrot repeating what his dull master meles kizenawi says. You know why ethiopia is still struggling for survival? it has people like gambella,kizenawi,bekit,sibaket nega,aba ‘dula’,tefera welaway,addisu H,Dawit H,seyoum H,LIdetu X,Beyene X,Himawi h,Gunedin big X the professor whom we saw on the debet,azeb S and so many others with stone head……
H-Names with ‘H’ at the end live with HIV
S-Names with ‘S’ aththe end are to mean ‘Shele’
February 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
WAKYO = ANOTHER DESPRATE DIE HARD AMARA
Why do`t you challenge Mr/Ms Gambella in rational manner instead of hidding non sense rigmorale ? From what i am reading and witnessing that Mr/Ms Gambella scored points and has upper hand.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Waky +ethiopi you are both desperate amhara selfish when isay amhara is selfish imean it b/c iknow your calture very well you donot even have agood omen for your own brother and sister let alone to think about other ethinic group like oromo; somali: benishangul: wolaytas and so on ……….. can you answer whay the oromos language was not included during the whole haile silasse government??while amhari;afar;somali;english;and french were on media so you cry forevr only the fools may die for your couse
February 1st, 2009 at 9:04 pm
iforget toinclue tigrigna from asmera
February 1st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
The Amhara tribalist fake lazy king(Menelike) did not only invaded oromos and stolen oromos land to reward stoeln oromos land to his own tribe (Amhara tribe). The Amhara unthinking lazy king (Menelike) sold Etritrea/part of Tigraye in order to weaken and devide Tigreans domestic political influence.
SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!! SHAME!!!!
February 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Mr.Ethiopie
Avoid the confusion, ETHIOPIA DOES NOT MEAN ETHIOPIA.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:40 am
ቾመ ኦን ጉይስ ውሃት ዋስ ትሀ ፖኢንት ፊርስት ኦፍ አልል ቶ ውሪተር ትሂስ ኪንድ ኦፍ ስታፍፍ? ኦ! ጁሱስ ውሀን ኢት ዊልል ላስት ቶ
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:40 am
People YOU are so childish.Stop blaming each other and let us look forward TO CHANGE THE CRISIS WE ARE FACING. i am sure all us who leaving comments the blog live in rich countries. but still a lot Oromo’s, tigris,amharas, gurage,gambela and more are suffring do to food shortage. Ormos blames amharas, the amharas blame tigire. what is the point. forget the past and do good for your people. Write write or talk behind computer don’t give shit. please let us stand united and fight weyane for our people good. Weyane must go. Hate don’t give us victory. specially the oromo’s and amhara stop stop. fight Tplf’s instead each other.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
ሰው የ TPLF ውሸትን ለምንድን እስካሁን እንደማያውቅ ነው ግራ የሚገባኝ::በህይወታቸው አንዲት ቀን እንክዋን እውነት ተናግረው አያውቁም:: መለስ + tplf = ትልቅ ውሸት::
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:59 am
Gambella/Metemeku Yohanse/yohanis
ዲቃሎች
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
..POSSIBLE TO END 100 YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION
I am glad the present government of ethiopia giving equal educational opportunity and equal access to all ethiopians without tribal discrimination, i am sure such unbiast just action will creat balance and justice to all ethiopians. In the past 100 years all education was given to Amharas only by Amhara dominated governments, that is why even though the Amhara`s represent less than 12% of ethiopias population but hold 79% of Ethiopias professional position and professional job.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Gambela,
How do you figure the “Seven generation” ?
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Tolosa stop insulting if you have an issue just try to convince aperson
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
መልስ gutema
እኔ ምንም ችግር የለብኝ እኔ የምለው ያለሁት ከአማራ እራስ ይውረዱ ነው
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 am
Please someone who is more enlighten than I am, read and summarize this internal World Bank report to Ethiopians (Ethiopia: Country Assistance Evaluation, 1998 – 2006 - http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/B7254927D0BBE8E7852574810052EEB2/$file/EthiopiaCAE.pdf). It will shed light on how international organizations like World Bank despite internal knowledge of what is going on the ground are willing to lend their hand to despots like ours without any precondition, thus perpatuing the misery and oppression of 70 million people and in the long run contributing to worsening of the situation than resolving it . I am terribly disappointing with these organizations. They should know better that without check and balance or presence of good governess in one form or shape, it will be extremely difficult to see how the aid which they are giving blindly can become effective. In fact it has become the main source of corruption and embezzlements, and the source of strength for regime which sole occupation has become staying in power and with huge army of rent seekers.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 am
ማሞ ሌላ መታወቂያው ሌላ አለ የሃገሬ ሰው: ለሃገር አሳቢ አዛኝ ቅቤ አንጓች ሆነው የቀረቡትና መጠሪያቸውን ጋምቤላ በማለት ለዚህ መድረክ የበቁት የበረከተ መለስ በቀቀን (ሮቦት) ኢትዮጵያ የመቶ ዓመት ታሪክ ብቻ እንዳላት በመደስኮር ታሪክን በማጥፋት ሃገራችንን ለዚህ አሳፋሪ ውርደት ያበቋት ሥሪት እንጂ ስብ ዕና የተላበሱ ፍጡር አይመስሉኝም:: በ እርግጥ ሃገራችን ከጥቂት አሥርተ ዓመታት በፊት እንዲህ ውርደታም አልነበረችም የተከበረችና የታፈረች እንጂ ህዝቡም ስደተኛ አልነበረም እንግዳ ተቀባይ እንጂ አቶ ስመ- ጋምቤላ በፈጠራችሁት ታሪክ የምትገነዙት ወያኔያውያን እንጂ እኛ ኢትዮጵያውያን አይደለንም:: ብልግናን ቅጥፈትን ክህደትን አረመኔነትን በሃገራችን ላይ ረጭታችሁዋል:: ይህም ችሎታችሁ ሃገራችንን ከውራነት አልፎ አዘቅት ውስጥ ከቷቷል:: አብሮ የኖረን ህዝብ አጋድላችኋል ሃገርን ሸጣችኋል ሰውን በሃሰት ክስ አስራችኋል ደብድባችኋል ገድላችኋል አሁንም በፊትም የምትናገሩትና የምትሰሩት አንድ ነው::ቀደምት አባቶቻችን በእንደናንተ ዓይነቱ አሳፋሪ ከሃዲ ባንዳዎች ስማቸው ሊነሳ ከቶ አይችልም ይህንን ለማድረግም እናንተ የዜግነት መብት የላችሁም የሃገሩን ታሪክና ህዝብ በሚያከብር ዜጋ እንጂ, ለነገሩ ጠላትማ ምን ጊዜም ጠላት ነው ከጥፋት ሌላ ከናንተ ምን እንጠብቅ ኖሯል ጃል!
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 am
GAMBELLA (WOYANNE)
THAT BRINGS YOU NO WHERE EVEN YOU COLLECT 5 DEGREES AS LONG AS YOU ARE SUFFERING BY INFERRIORITY COMPLEX
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Gambella the the lover of meles just stop insulting amhara people you can support tigrian mafia group who are hated by majority of ethiopian people who loves their country my advice for you is to go to aiga forum or shabeit god save my country from these damn beast
February 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Members of the crimefamily are wealthy and cruel. Babies have left in the streets because their young mothers were sent to the middleEast to customers who could never be satisfied with over-supply the regim’s agents sent them on a daily basis.
yes, millions of citizens are punished hard because they don’t have food to feed themselves and their loved ones becsause the regime did never care and would never care about the citizens in their own country. The invaders are strangers doing strange things to the citzens.
February 4th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
When ever i read any article 90% of the ppl are against woyane but whenit comes to pick up agun they afraid to do so how long do you guys are going to wine???