An abandoned billboard around the Gotera area seamlessly fuses into a food silo next to it, a relic of the communist era in Ethiopia. While food silos are a thing of the past set aside as primitive tools to battle shortages, food insecurity persists in Ethiopia, with 25 million people living with severe food insecurity. An onslaught of war, drought, fertiliser shortages and locust invasions have colluded to push food prices past the reach of the majority in the last few years. The twofold spike in the price of the staple grain of Ethiopian cuisine, Teff, over the past two years is indicative of a pervasive malaise shaking at the pillars of the food supply chain.

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