famine

The result was one of the largest famines in history.

Reports and studies over the intervening years have spelt out the likely cost of failure: floods, droughts, famines and refugees.

Historians have known for some time that the Great Leap Forward resulted in one of the world's worst famines.

Even the famines that sometimes ravage less-developed countries are rarely due to overpopulation--civil war is a more common cause.

Wars, plagues and famines visited us, but we did not stop in our industrious creation of deserts.

Despite intermittent wars and famines, the long-term trend is for a better life for almost everybody.

Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies.

When news arrived of distant floods and famines, malfeasance and malnutrition, they told themselves that theirs was a world apart.

and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences ; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

This may be a consequence of the famines and chronic malnutrition that caused millions of deaths in the past two centuries.

And climate caused famines, economic downturns, and catastrophic human events far more often than did any of the other 14 variables.

He concluded that the main reason for famines is not a shortage of basic food.

8For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and famines.

Whenever there're famines, people will have problems. Problems mean. . . . business for me.

In previous famines in Africa, camels have been considered an early warning system for human deaths.

In "The Crisis Caravan" her ire is directed at the ghoulish cavalcade that sweeps in after wars, famines and natural disasters.

Smoking is the biggest threat to the existence of human beings only after wars, famines and plagues.

That's certainly one lesson of the "Green Revolution" that averted the famines many apocalyptic environmentalists forecast in the 1970s.

Droughts, floods and famines would ensue, experts say, and then the mass migration of people, with the conflict that would engender.

Had they not, rain forests would have been even more devastated than they have been; and famines worse.

This view made some sense for societies subject to catastrophic mortality from famines, plagues and wars.

Floods, like famines, are often slower-building horrors.

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Before that, however, there will be terrifying signs. Jesus mentions wars, famines, and persecutions.

These images are always favored by the media in reporting famines, but the indicators before the real famine often go unheeded .

Worldwide famines and dire overpopulation loomed, people murdering for bowls of rice.

The planned economy collapsed in the early 1990s. Famines have killed hundreds of thousands.

Successive dynasties employed a master of esoterica who would record and interpret floods, famines and other disasters.

This food aid alsobecame a political weapon for Barre, whose engineered famines helped solidifyhis power as the distributor of food aid.

But Sudan and Ethiopia have famines now: should they be declining to sign land deals altogether?

Many Chinese people can remember the famines of the early 1960s which killed tens of millions of people.

While rising food prices strain household budgets in the west, they risk famines in Africa and Asia.

Natural disasters caused famines in several provinces.

Famines in China can be permanently cured only by better methods of agriculture combined with emigration or birth-control on a large scale.

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981.

When common men were slaves and serfs, they obeyed andthey were fed, but they died by thousands in plagues and famines.

Actually, I would assist everybody such as famines, orphans and so on who are really in need someday if I were a wealthy businessman.

Wars and famines signified the disruption of stability.

Famines lay waste to countries; bad diets cripple them silently.

It created feasts and famines, songs of joy, lamentations.

Tens of millions died in Stalin's famines, purges and camps. Most Soviet citizens somehow survived. Here are some of their stories.

I often talk to refugees: "Why was it that the West didn't realize that famines are caused by policies and politics, not by weather? "

Take Ethiopia, notorious for its recurring famines, with 7m people still on food aid.

The frequent occurrences of natural disasters, famines and poverty aggravated all kinds of social contradictions in modem China.

Tens of millions died in Stalin's famines, purges and camps.

Famines being rare in America these days, Dr Catalano and his colleagues used unemployment as their stressful event.

They have experienced famines , and floods, and death by fire.

Floods, like famines, do their worst damage in the weeks and months after the highest waters have subsided.

During the famines of 1840 and 1848, it was what almost all peasants had to eat.

FAO works to make sure famines never happen.

Famines have always played a role in history.

Despite having some of the most fertile land in the world, 30 to 40 million people died in 25 famines during British rule.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation , if we permit future famines.

What caused the famines of the 1990s?

Many people die of starvation during famines every year.

And it is affecting people not usually hit by famines.

So long as the present birth-rate and the present methods of agriculture persist, famines are bound to occur periodically;

countries that regularly suffer famines

Most people believe that famines are caused by droughts or floods,

Herbal for Relief of Famines