Reseeding the Green Revolution

摘要

Searing images of Ethiopian children with bloated bellies and flies clinging to their faces spurred the world in 1984 to combat that nation's devastating famine. To publicize their plight, which was exacerbated by the country's raging civil war, UNESCO filmed actresses Liv Ullman and the late Audrey Hepburn touring camps full of starving children. Pop icons Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie raised millions for the cause by gathering U.S. musicians to sing "We Are the World." In the United Kingdom, rock star Bob Geldof launched a similar campaign, called Band Aid. His arrival in Addis Ababa with a planeload of food sealed Ethiopia's reputation as the epitome of a country incapable of feeding itself. . ,