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-Agricultural Growth: Cultivated land doubled, crop production reached 700 million quintals, with wheat accounting for 40%, Ethiopia is now Africa’s largest wheat producer

The dependency ran two ways. The regular deluge of food aid had turned Ethiopia into a global welfare state. And its reliance on the huge volumes from the United States bred a bizarre dependency on weather and growing conditions in the American Midwest. "You hear people say they don't care whether it rains in Ethiopia as long as it rains in Iowa," said Mesfin Abebe, an adviser to the deputy prime minister and minister of rural development during the famine.

Ahmed said Trump’s abrupt order sent shockwaves through Ethiopia’s humanitarian community and gave them no time to seek alternative funding for life-saving work.

“This directly affects millions of Ethiopians,” Ahmed said. “If the funding does not resume, it could lead to deaths and an even larger humanitarian crisis in conflict-affected and food-insecure regions.”