And this was yet another famine in Ethiopia.

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In 2001 we experienced an awful famine.

Famine stared us in the face.

My work is always feast or famine.

The long drought was followed by famine.

Famine followed upon the eruption of the volcano.

These countries were often visited with famine.

In times of abundance, remember the times of famine.

The specter of mass starvation loomed.

And then, you see, these were famine years.

Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.

That is why so many people are suffering from famine.

Because of the hunger, I was forced to drop out of school.

Can you share food with others in the face of famine?

War has produced famine throughout history.

Hunger crises in Yemen Hundreds line up hoping to get bread.

Locusts, plague, waste disposal issues, famine and now floods.

Instead of famine, hidden until it is too late, we detect it, and we respond.

(f) To take all necessary measures to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and famine

Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.

All this time you're when you think about hunger, it's a hard thing to think about, because what we think about is eating.

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We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.

And you get a far lower risk of famine, because you actually had two crops to fall back on, not one.

300,000 people are at risk of famine in the region because of a severe and prolonged drought since November 2014.

A tribe of natives once honored Christopher Columbus with an all he could eat feast. Years of famine followed.

The period of the Great Famine saw the population of Kells drop by 38 as measured by the census records of 1841 and 1851.

The consequences for Iceland were catastrophic, with approximately 25 33 of the population dying in the famine of 1783 and 1784.

And he said, This genetic resource, and I'll never forget the words stands between us and catastrophic starvation on a scale we cannot imagine.

Deeply concerned also at the severe drought affecting Mozambique and other countries of southern Africa, resulting in famine and poverty,

It offers no discussion of the lethal policies since 1949 that led to the persecution and starvation of tens of millions of Chinese.

It's not something everyone can get behind the way they get behind helping Haiti, or ending AIDS, or fighting a famine.

Negara negara ini menghadapi banyak tantangan kelaparan, korupsi, konflik, kurang akses pada air bersih dan pendidikan, AIDS, dan Ebola namun cepatnya penuaan tidak menjadi salah satu permasalahan bagi mereka.

So in 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time.

Most refugees from North Korea during the 1990s famine crossed over the Tumen River, and most recent refugees have also used it, as it is far easier than crossing the Yalu.

Ghouta is one among the many Syrian towns that have been subjected to siege, bombing, destruction and starvation since the beginning of the popular uprising in March 2011.

It seemed that for our neighbors and friends, Africa was either this exotic place, this imaginary land that probably exists only in their imagination, or the place of horror, famine.

The result was that agricultural labor and resources were rapidly diverted to industry, resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions.

Over the past year, more than 50 economists prepared research on nearly 40 investment proposals in areas ranging from armed conflicts and natural disasters to hunger, education, and global warming.

Emphasizing the need to address the crisis bearing in mind the importance of the transition from relief to development, and acknowledging the underlying structural causes for the recurrent famine in Ethiopia,

6. Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation

5. Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation

In this you will confront striking contrasts that paint human follies in the garb of lifting sanctity thirsty, loves the drought hungry, loves the famine the contents though spilled, yet never exhausted.