Emergency Nutrition Intervention Guideline

Responding to malnutrition in a community requires a thorough understanding of its underlying causes. Simply measuring the amount of malnutrition is not sufficient. This chapter aims to provide an explanation of the causes and development of malnutrition in Ethiopia. An overview of causal factors such as access to food, adequate health services and disrupted social and care environments will be given. A description of the process leading from food insecurity to famine in Ethiopia is also presented.