Image credit to The Guardian The Ethiopian famine of 1983-1985 affected roughly 7.7 million people, and killed an estimated 1 million. Dr. Miriam Bradley, a senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, explained that there never was a single cause of the crisis, stating “the 1983 to 1985 famine […] was the occasion for an outpouring of western charity spurred by Bob Geldof’s Band Aid. That famine, which killed between 600,000 and 1 million people,