<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/76325e24-96ef-40bd-adc2-e235551a8ef4/1503B81A-6AE9-4AAD-83FB-B532A63126FE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia" href="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oxfam.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><H1 class="title">Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><DIV class="field-date-created">22 October 2009</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><H3>Twenty-five years on from 1984 famine food aid remains knee-jerk reaction</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><P class="strong">International aid agency Oxfam today called  for a radical shake-up  in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to offer long-term solutions which would break these cyclical and chronic crises.     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><BLOCKQUOTE><P>“Ethiopians on the frontline of climate change cannot wait another 25 years for common sense to become common practice.”</p> <CITE><SPAN>Penny Lawrence</SPAN> <SPAN>International Director for Oxfam</SPAN></CITE></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-22/aid-system-break-cycle-hunger-ethiopia"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.oxfam.org/img/E4659C26-76F8-42AE-9AB3-F2A64E9F7D2A" alt="Oxfam has been working to help manage water supply. Simple techniques like stone water channels can drain water logged land and together with a better seed, can deliver four times the harvest families were getting previously. Credit: Jane Beesley/Oxfam" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1503B81A-6AE9-4AAD-83FB-B532A63126FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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