[wideawake]

It's typically the smallest ones, like Aberash, who are in trouble: they no longer depend on breast milk, but they aren't strong enough to compete with their siblings in grabbing food from the pot.

So starvation in Ethiopia is due to abusive parenting.

[The Right Stuff]

In an earlier column, Kristoff talked about how the father eats first (some of the fathers were even portly) and that some of the crops failed right near a lake because transporting water from the lake to the fields was "woman's" work and the men couldn't be bothered doing it themselves.

Sounds like a benighted worldview to me.