1980s: Drought, Ethiopia

© Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

 

A drought and border conflicts in the first half of the 1980s contributed to a major famine in Ethiopia. Northern Ethiopia is a drought-prone part of the world and in this period shortfalls of rain caused repeated failed harvests. According to the United Nations, the food shortages from 1983 to 1985 caused over one million famine deaths and led to hundreds of thousands of people being displaced. This image was taken during the distribution of corn to isolated villages by helicopter in February 1987.

Historic weather events that shocked the world (msn.com)

1980s: Drought, Ethiopia A drought and border conflicts in the first half of the 1980s contributed to a major famine in Ethiopia. Northern Ethiopia is a drought-prone part of the world and in this period shortfalls of rain caused repeated failed harvests. According to the United Nations, the food shortages from 1983 to 1985 caused over one million famine deaths and led to hundreds of thousands of people being displaced. This image was taken during the distribution of corn to isolated villages by helicopter in February 1987.