Refugee crisis: Plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia - BBC News

It's a circle of disaster. People starve because there is not enough agriculture. There isn't enough agriculture because there is no infrastructure, there is no infrastructure because the governments are corrupt. The Governments are corrupt because the people can't change them. The people cant change them because the people are starving.
Outside investors and governments are leery of investing in an area that has a corrupt government.

interesting

I am in a Gastronomy class and we were discussing Agriculture and Productivity along with Industrialization of the Agriculture Sector. I came across an interesting piece on why Africa is failing to provide for their people. I'll give you a few snippets and if you want I'll send you the article. Food Security is also one of the main reasons there are refugees aside from the violence. People are starving, suffering from malnutrition and have no means to obtain jobs for food.


"The root cause of Africa’s
misery is extraordinarily
simple: the almost absolute
failure of people in
high places (government,
industry, academe, science)
to understand agriculture; what it is, what it is for, how it needs to
be done, what it can do."

"Farming is the only industry remotely capable of employing the
billions of people – literally billions, because most of the world is
agrarian – who will be out of work if agriculture continues on the
course now plotted for it
by western governments
and corporations, assisted
by expensive science."

"Modern farming is not
designed to feed people.
Despots and politicians of
all hues have taken it for
granted that, with modern
techniques and cheap
energy, agriculture is infinitely
adaptable, to be
slotted in to any ideology"

Tudge, C. (2004). 'There will never be any other industry that can employ as many people as farming'. New Statesman, 133(4680), 25

I have it on PDF and can share if you want the entire 4 pages. Brings up some interesting points and as I am learning about agriculture through my studies, I concur.