Any historically and culturally educated person must question himself why most African countries become the victim of hunger, disease and underdevelopment before one comes to the conclusion that African countries must accept GM food products in order to solve their food crises. Leaving aside the bad legacy of slavery and colonialism, most African countries are not still independent and have never been allowed to formulate their own inward looking development strategies. For these there are various factors which hamper Africa's development. As everybody knows, especially beginning the end of the Second World War, the world politics, and especially the world economy was being controlled by few so-called highly developed countries which have formulated their own strategy how they could undermine any developmental efforts which could be practiced outside their own boundaries and ideologies.

With the aim of undermining any meaningful developmental efforts, they have established diverse international institutions, like the IMF, the World Bank, and other so-called UN development organizations whose sole purpose is to confuse the poorly educated African academician. As a matter of fact the ideology of these diverse organizations is the neo-liberal ideology which is completely detached from science, technology and production activities. In other words, according to the belief of this neo-liberal ideology, Third World Countries could developed their economy and bring an over whole social development not by science driven technology and by mobilizing their own human and natural resources, but through international trade. Since Third World Countries and, especially Africa are endowed with natural resources they must not show any effort to developed their own technology. Through intensive international trade they can import the already developed technologies from the industrialized west. The education system which was formulated by neo-colonial masters with the aim of controlling the African academician and the neo-liberal ideology which was uncritically accepted by so many African experts has at the end proved that it produces and reproduces underdevelopment and hunger on a higher scale. The few technologies which were imported did not have the desired trickle-down effect, and the economy became disarticulated and outward-looking. This in turn enforced resource outflows which eroded the financial and economic bases of the government and the society. Therefore food shortage is not the cause of wide spread hunger in Africa but it is a by-product of vicious circle of underdevelopment which is intermingled with other internally and internationally organized factors.

In order to understand the whole problem we must analyse the African food crises from different angels too. At the end of colonialism most African states are installed by the colonial powers in order to continue their exploitation through diverse mechanisms. In countries where efforts have been taken to liberate fully African countries from neo-colonial dominations coup d´états become the rule of the outside forces. The so-called civilized west has continued its barbaric exterminations of the very few highly educated African leaders. Patrice Lumumba of Congo and the charismatic leader of Ghana, Mr. Kwame Nkrumah became the victim of evil minded foreign forces. From within the very few officers have cooperated with these foreign forces to eliminate their brothers who have fought vehemently to bring true civilization for their African sisters and brothers. These highly educated and far sighted leaders took as their historical responsibility to end foreign domination from their country. But most of the people, especially their compatriots did not understand them. In countries where things were going more or less smoothly, though these countries are west oriented, some European countries waged a systematic war to bring chaotic situations. The case of Indiamen's Uganda is a vivid example. An illiterate military person seized the power with the help of some uncivilized foreign forces and exterminated over ten thousands of Ugandan intellectuals. In the Republic of Congo we witness also that after Mobutu has accomplished his job of plundering the countries wealth in favour of the civilized west the country must be put again in turmoil so that plundering of her resources will continue and her people live in an atmosphere of fear and mass exodus. The strategy is very simple: Africans must not have settled lives. If they have settled lives they concentrate and build their countries. Beside this almost in all African countries the state apparatus, i.e. the military, the police and the civil bureaucracy are trained by foreign forces. As a mater of fact it is very simple to infiltrate these forces and- to organise appraisals when ever is needed. By organizing the state apparatus and by infiltrating it one can control the social forces that are struggling for reforms and democracy, and if things go out of control it is very easy to create chaos within the society. The case of Ethiopia during the revolution was a clear example how foreign forces wage wars from within and outside so that to produce an atmosphere of chaos and confusion. The forces who did not understand this intriguing activity of foreign forces began slaughtering their brothers and sisters. In this way most of African governments and their structures become dysfunctional. That means they could not have any power of bringing an inward looking social and capital accumulation strategy which frees their people from underdevelopment. In the last 50 years African governments must follow the advices of those poorly educated and corrupted experts which are sent from their organizations. These experts after they have finished their dirty jobs they began writing about the corruption in their organisations, how things went wrong, what must be done if Africa should be freed from economic and social crises.

The underdevelopment problem, especially the food crises in Africa could be well understood if one takes the above factors as the main causes of hindrances. If we look at the role of the government officials and the different departments in Africa, the ministers feel that they do not have any social responsibility for their own people. They think and believe that becoming a minister or any other government official is a special gift for very few individuals, and they are chosen in order to have simply posts and not to administer correctly. Most officials could not work efficiently, and there are no any control mechanisms. African officials and their people are living into two different worlds, separated, by social differences, culture, drinking habit, clothing and other norms. In Ethiopia too we have the same irresponsible government officials who are masterminded by foreign forces and when they are in trouble they disappear out of their country and ask asylum in America. These poorly educated officials, during their office years they make no efforts to do researches, by reading books or try to make contributions how to bring fundamental changes in their society. Practically Africa is governed by political bandits who are lawless, who do not have love for their own people and they are without any ethical and moral backgrounds who pave the way for civil wars and foreign interventions. Most African leaders could not understand the art of politics and do not posses any philosophy and social theory which serve them as guide lines of political handlings. Unless any radical change has been taken in all spheres of the political, social and cultural lives of the African society, there is no any meaningful development.

Concerning the GM food one must look the situation profoundly. As we know well that in the 60`s and 70`s we were told that through the green revolution the world food crises will be resolved automatically, and all so-called underdeveloped countries will be freed from hunger and mass starvation. That time all elements of the green revolution package came especially from the American laboratories. In order to implement the green revolution poor African farmers were evicted from their farm areas. Only in very few selected areas, small holding farmers could gain some tangible results from the green revolution. Mostly credits and high yield variety seeds were distributed for the well-to-do farmers. Studies in Ethiopia, in areas where such practices have taken place, demonstrate that poor peasants became either simply tenants or through the mechanisation of farm lands they were compelled to go to other areas and the cities to be come prostitutes and Kulis. In other countries, like Thailand and Philippines, the effect of the green revolution is well known. Due to the poisonous nature of the insecticides and other related elements farmers became ill. The productivity factor of such high yield variety crop is not a continuous process. Since the fertility of the soil is destroyed by the high chemical fertilizers, farmers must buy every time more and more fertilizers in order to raise the productivity of the soil. That means mechanized farming practices unless managed well they are very cost intensive and at the end ruin the farmers who apply such methods. In addition high yield variety crops absorb too much water from the earth and cause draught. The case in most Southern African countries, especially in Zimbabwe, the repeated draught is caused due to intensive maize and tobacco production. We know also that an uncontrolled fertilization and highly mechanized farming system destroy small and medium farming peasants which are working with mixed farming practices. Most of the experts who come from outside to advice these farmers they do not have any farm practices or they are not grown up in rural areas. Their laboratory knowledge is quasi-scientific and not as such civilization oriented and comprehensive. If we look at the green revolution strategy closely its aim was to control Africa and other Third World Countries and to bring these countries under the total domination of multinational companies. It is a well known fact that the American government has formulated in the 60`s a special policy to use food aid as a political weapon. American multinational companies were running to control the seed banks of the Third World Countries so as to make them dependent on American resources. The matter is simple. Other Third World and African countries will be compelled to buy every time seeds from the American and European companies which are specialized in these fields. The well retained seed cultures which African countries posses and which could resist weather and particular insects must be abolished. One should also see the nutritional effects of such kinds of seeds and foods. They are not well balanced. Most of the seeds contain either too much protein or starch. Look the physical constructions of most American and European people. It's not natural. Most of the people are prone to sickness. Cancer, diabetic, kidney problems, and other so-called civilization sickness are related to such kinds of food habits which are produced in the laboratories for the sake of productivity growth and profit maximization.

If we look closely at the GM food, it is another attempt to totally control the African food needs, and to make the African people more vulnerable to all kinds of dieses. The GM food is not a culturally produced food item which is become effective after thousands of years of trials and errors like other crops which the African farmers have been practicing for centuries. It is a laboratory product of those evilly minded scientists who are well paid by multinational companies. It is against human culture, food habit and human civilization. If it is once introduced in the African soil - in Ethiopia the notorious Meles government is practicing it - the consequences are unpredictable. It destroys the African natural wealth. It changes its fauna and flora. Instead of developing a well sustained farming system based on family basis by using traditional seeds, it makes the African farmers dependent on outside resources which the African governments pay heavily. Strategically it destroys all the natural genetic food resources that Africa posses. The negative effect on the human lives is unknown. Most highly critically minded scientists warn that the application of such kinds of seeds have wide range consequences on human health and on the environment. They could exterminate peoples, or some unwanted races. Therefore before it is too late we must resist all the pressures made on us by foreign forces to accept GM food. Especially we Ethiopians who have thousands of crops which our mothers and fathers have passed to us must be aware of the consequences of GM foods and we must never accept the advices of these so-called foreign experts. The aim of these highly paid experts is to prolong the misery of the African people and to block a science and technological driven development in Africa.

Let's see the food crises in Ethiopia a bit closer. The repeated famine and hunger problem in Ethiopia is more a structural problem than a climatic one. The feudal social fabric and later on the introduction of peripheral capitalism have produced a very interwoven and non-dynamic social structure which produces and reproduces underdevelopment on a higher scale. The feudal social order which lasted over 800 years had very negative consequences on the division of labour. 1. The land use system which was based on possession rights prevented the social mobility of the society. 2. The piece of land which was allocated to the peasantry was motivated not by economic factors but to get more ideological support and gain social bases. Though the possession right on land was not sufficient to satisfy the need of the peasantry the mere fact of having possession rights on the land have a psychological impact on the peasantry. 3. The meagre income from the farm was not enough to invest on the land so as to improve the productivity of the soil. Besides this, the peasantry was obliged to pay tributes for the feudal lords and to the church which has eroded his economic base and reduced his consumption pattern. 4. The consumption pattern of the feudal and aristocratic class was very repetitive. Such kinds of unchanged consumption pattern had practically blocked the development of the division of labour. That means technological improvement was practically impossible. Without technological development and the introduction of new technologies the revolution on farming methods was impossible. 5. The feudal economy of that time was mainly characterized by the absence of money. The forms of money which was used that time could not fasten the development of capitalism based on private property and sophisticated division of labour. 6. The dormant life of the peasantry and the feudal class had also a negative impact on the environment. The peasantry had no other option than cutting the exiting trees to full fill his energy needs. As more and more trees were cut the fertility of the soil was washed by rain and wiped out by winds. Especially in the northern part of Ethiopia where the feudal order had existed for over 800 years, without any technological revolution the impact of primitive living styles and farming system on the environment is clear to everybody. 7. During this time of feudal relationship Ethiopia did not have the opportunity to experience any intellectual and social movements which could challenge the system. Though some ideas were coming from abroad these were not enough to destabilize the social relationship. To my knowledge the above factors were responsible for the repeated famine and hunger in our country. Though some attempts were made to curve the above situation by means of revolution the persons who seized power did not have any workable strategy how they could bring a well balanced development. At the end all forces fought to seize power which ends in disintegration of the very few structures which could sustain at least the old pattern of production activity. The socialism of the military type which was more rhetorical than theoretically backed has produced politically seen vulgar forces which began disorganising the lives of the peasantry. Especially the endless war which has evicted thousands of farmers from their farming areas has left at the end incoherent social structures which did not have any political and social meanings. The 17 years war between the rebel forces from the north and the military government has consumed the country's resources. Thousands of peasants were compelled to be engaged in the war front and had lost their lives. In this war foreign forces had played their dirty roles to instigate a total civil war in order to disintegrate Ethiopia as a nation-state. In this atmosphere of total war and mass eviction normal life in the rural areas is practically impossible. The remaining peasants without a functioning state and market structure couldn't resume their farm practices. The political cadres of the Military government had also their negative role to play by disorganizing the lives of the peasantry. Ideologically motivated they compelled the peasantry to contribute for the endless war and other activities which diminished his investment capacity.

The EPRDF government has continued this process of disorganizing the peasantry on a different scale by giving it ethnic images. In south of the country the new troops of the EPRDF and so-called liberation fronts have either destroyed or compelled the very few hard working farmers to leave their farming lands. After the inflow of the peasantry to neighbouring cities and other safe areas where they could not be easily attacked, farm lands could not be systematically cultivated. In those areas where major crops were cultivated the EPDRF government began to wage a systematic campaign by dividing the farmers between feudal, bureaucratic and oppressed farmers. Especially farmers from the Gojam and Gondar areas became real targets of the evil minded EPRDF government. In short instead of bringing harmony within the society, with the collaboration of its foreign masters the Meles government waged a very complex war in all fronts against the Ethiopian People.

After the seizer of power, though the EPRDF government has clearly stated that it will give priority to the food crises by investing on rural areas, no systematic effort has been taken to help the poor peasants. With the introduction of the structural adjustment program and the market economy of the IMF things became worse and structural deformation became the rule of the economic policy. Instead of concentrating on machine tool industries which are very crucial for any meaningful development the Meles government has again opened the door for the old type of industrialisation i.e. import-substitution industrialization. As we know the result of such kind of non-dynamic industrialization and market economic reforms is nothing but an unbalanced development and wide spread corruption. So-called aid organizations, either governmental or non-governmental have aggravated the economic crises of our country. By corrupting the officials and the academic circle and even by being engaged in black market activities they are partly responsible for the economic crises in our country. The Meles government has opened our country to international piracy which steals our resources and takes it away without being checked. Ethiopians who are struggling for the sovereignty of the country are being chased. This is the reality of our Ethiopia.

If some body wants to give effective solution to the food crises in Africa and particularly the repeated famine in Ethiopia one should try to analyse the complex situation historically. A mere technocratic or bureaucratic approach will complicate the situation. As one well known economic historian clearly said only a historically based systematic analysis could give an approximate solution to such kind of food crises and repeated famine. The food crises could not be solved in isolation of the economic and social crises which are prevailing in African society. The attempts of international organizations and their experts is nothing but to divert the articulation of the African masses from their true problems. As one philosopher said if you want to solve a given problem you must not see it singularly but as a part of one complex thing which could be analysed and resolved simultaneously. Outside this there is no true scientific solution for the African food crises. According to my belief foreign experts and so-called international community will never solve the food crises in Africa. The solution lies in the hands of Africans themselves. In Ethiopia too, only we Ethiopians have the power and the ability to combat the existing food crises in our country. 30 years of food aid could not solve our problem.

In order to alleviate the food crises and eliminate famine from our country the following points must be implemented urgently.

1. The political system must be radically changed and democratic institutions which allow the participation of the masses must be established.

2. A new constitution which encompasses the whole part of the society and which guarantee the sovereignty of the country must be drafted. The new constitution must be based on natural laws.

3. All state machines which are oppressive and which are instruments of foreign dominations must be abolished.

4. A democratic education system which is suitable for science and technology must be introduced.

5. All forms of education which arrest Ethiopia's development must be abolished.

6. A new economic policy which is based on physical economic principles which allows the participation of the whole people must be introduced. The new economic policy must be based on machine-tool principles.

7. The banking system must be restructured on universal banking principles so as to support real general capital accumulation.

8. According to the new banking laws money hoarding in private hands must be legally prohibited Money which is unnecessarily deposited in the banks for the sake of interest bearing must be taxed.

9. Work must be compulsory for all groups of persons between the ages of 18-65 year. Every member of the society which is capable to work must be engaged in all activities to eradicate poverty and thereby bring an over whole development. A program of food for work must be worked out.

10. To finance the program it is essential to establish a nation-wide fund raising system which could be supported by all Ethiopians including those who are living abroad.

11. To effectively materialize the program it is necessary to establish trainee centres, especially for the youth.

12. All economic policies which prolong Ethiopia's underdevelopment must be abolished and foreign forces must not be allowed to intervene in our economic affairs.

13. All black market activities must be strictly forbidden, and those who break the laws they will be severely punished.

14. Foreign goods which compete against goods which are produced at home will be either taxed heavily or will not be imported. Food items like fish, meet, sugar and other packed products will not be imported. The importation of alcohol drinks and luxury goods which consume the country's hard currency reserves must be strictly forbidden.

15. Foreign investment must be allowed only in certain selected areas like railroad building, complete machine industry and other sophisticated infrastructure activities.

16. Ministers and other high state officials before they are assigned to their jobs they must pass tests and present thesis how they tackle the problems in the departments they are assigned Persons who had special relationships in the past with foreign forces must not be allowed to participate in any government office.

17. All so-called economic aid organizations, governmental or non-governmental must be expelled from our country. If it is necessary we invite well educated and humanely minded experts. For this to take place we have to prepare evaluation measures

18. We must redirect our relationship to other well minded nations which help our developmental efforts. It is advisable to make special relationships, with China, India, Japan, South Korea and others which do not have any imperial aspirations.

19. All agreements which negatively affect our national sovereignty must be unilaterally annulled.