Wide Angle Profiles One Woman’s Mission to End Hunger in Her Famine-Plagued Country Through Ethiopia’s First Commodities Exchange, July 22 on PBS Anchor Aaron Brown Reports from East Africa to Document the Efforts of Ethiopian Economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin in the Market Maker ------- For my assessment of the ECX and readers' comments, click HERE - Wondwossen ------- BUSINESS WIRE July 14, 2009 NEW YORK--Twenty-five years after Ethiopia’s famine captured the attention of the world, one startling fact prevails: while nearly one million people starved to death mainly in the north of the country, the south had a food surplus. The problem, says former World Bank economist Eleni Gabre-Madhin, is that the country lacked the economic mechanism to smoothly move commodities from one part of the country to another. Gabre-Madhin, a Cornell undergraduate at the time, saw clearly that the devastating famine was not a result of a lack of food but lack of food distribution. Haunted by the skelet...