Famine isn't just about masses of people going hungry; famine tears societies apart.
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"It is famine-like, but you cannot call it famine, because you can only call [it] famine if you have a certain number of criteria," said WFP spokesman Hervé Verhoosel.
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There are questions about how useful the Famine Action Mechanism might be in preventing an actual famine.
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The war has been punctuated by disease, famine and near-famine conditions in parts of the country.
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Famine was declared in some areas of South Sudan in February - the first official famine in six years.
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) said there was "an elevated risk of famine" in that area.
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At least three million Bengalis died in a catastrophic famine in 1943, a famine that is almost never discussed.
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But just because forecasting and avoiding a famine is hard work doesn't make the Famine Action Mechanism a futile act.
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In February, the U.N. declared parts of South Sudan were suffering from famine, the world's first famine for six years.
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Areas rescued from famine would easily slip back into famine if aid was diverted to new hotspots, the report said.
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The most recent were the 2010-12 famine, a food crisis in 2014 and a near famine in 2016-17.
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"Demand comes and goes, from famine to feast and back to famine," said Philippe Bodereau, managing director at bond investing giant PIMCO.
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Republicans and Democrats are proposing supplemental funding to address famine in South Sudan and to prevent famine in Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen.
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The United Nations has already declared famine in parts of South Sudan and warned of looming famine in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
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A civil war has led to a declaration of famine in the world's newest nation, South Sudan, while three others--Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen--are at risk of famine; two of which, Nigeria and Yemen, are also facing famine due to ongoing conflicts.
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Road to famine Yemen now leads the world in food security crisis, and is one step away from famine, O'Brien told the Security Council.
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While the other countries are technically on the brink of famine, the United Nations has already declared parts of South Sudan a famine zone.
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Somalia famine: 'People are dying of hunger' Somalia, which has suffered from 25 years of conflict, is currently threatened by a famine caused by drought.
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Yemen is also in the grip of a devastating famine, with the World Health Organization warning 8.4 million people are living in pre-famine conditions.
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The country is also in the grip of a devastating famine, with the World Health Organization warning 8.4 million people are living in pre-famine conditions.
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Famine looms over Somalia, and the country's children are especially vulnerable Famine looms over Somalia, and the country's children are especially vulnerable This segment originally aired March.
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The Famine Early-Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) predicts that the highly anticipated April rains are unlikely to come—a warning that a famine is to be expected.
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Somalia's 2011 famine killed 260,000 people, half of whom died before the official declaration of famine, caused by drought, war and lack of access for humanitarian aid.
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On Tuesday, the U.S.-based Famine Early Warning Systems Network said that at least 2,000 people may have died of famine this year in parts of northeastern Nigeria.
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In a statement accompanying the letter Tuesday, Pocan said the offensive on Hodeida could push Yemen, which is on the brink of famine, into a full-blown famine.
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The United Nations has declared famine in a patch of South Sudan, and has raised the alarm about the risk of famine in northern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
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Violence pushes South Sudan into famine as thousands flee to neighboring Uganda Violence pushes South Sudan into famine as thousands flee to neighboring Uganda A new report published Monday has blamed civil war and instability for a famine in South Sudan – the first to be declared globally for 286 years.
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"It is not a famine but it is rising up to the levels of getting close to famine," said Matt Nims, acting director of Food for Peace at USAID.
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The response to famine, what the governments tell us is, well of course we're going to respond to famine, but until the emaciated children appear on television ... We're not.
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"If there was no conflict in Yemen, there would be no descent into famine, misery, disease and death — a famine would certainly be avoidable and averted," Mr. O'Brien said.
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Famine is only officially declared after an inspection team has carried out a formal survey on the ground, so there is no guarantee that famine is not already underway.
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I have also hugely admired Anne Applebaum for her trilogy on the Gulag, the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe ("Iron Curtain") and, most recently, the Ukrainian famine ("Red Famine").
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Women in the current study who were exposed to famine in the womb also appeared more likely than women who didn't live through the famine to experience premature ovarian failure.
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" He even seemed to view the catastrophic famine as a reasonable punishment for India's high birthrate, telling his war cabinet that the famine was Indians' own fault for "breeding like rabbits.
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In South Sudan, where the United Nations declared famine in some areas in February, "a further 1 million people are now on the brink of famine", UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said.
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" In South Sudan alone, where the UNHCR in February declared a famine with 100,000 at risk, the agency now says an extra 1 million people are "on the brink of famine.
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" The New York Times declared: "Water Famine Now Impossible.
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Famine a 'man-made tragedy' Drew said the famine was "a man-made tragedy" and called for an end to the fighting so aid could get through to those most in need.
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One of the programs that you're announcing is the Famine Action Mechanism, which is astonishing that we're talking about high-tech jobs or anything else when famine still exists around the globe.
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Compared to women born after the famine ended, women exposed to famine in the womb were 59 percent more likely to go through menopause before age 45, which is earlier than normal.
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South Sudan's civil war pushes the country toward famine South Sudan's civil war pushes the country toward famine BENTIU, South Sudan — For five months, Nyabany and her five children had avoided the gunfire.
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Humanity has had astonishing success alleviating famine, disease, and war.
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Without these critical efforts, millions more could be facing famine.
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That experience points to the unique challenge of famine forecasting.
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Mr Privert has warned of the risk of "widespread famine".
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There was no Anne Frank to record the famine experience.
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"It was feast or famine with just auto," he said.
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That, he said, would lead to famine, disease, and poverty.
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A famine earlier this year was averted by food aid.
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They alluded to the Great Famine and the Great Purge.
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"Pain," Keenan says, "suffers the same linguistic famine" as love.
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The last famine was formally declared in Somalia in 6900.
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What did he do in times of flood and famine?
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There is a large outbreak of cholera, and widespread famine.
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Somalia's last famine, in 2011, killed more than 260,000 people.
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Famine has already been declared in pockets of South Sudan.
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The war has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
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Around 7 million people are on the brink of famine.
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Conflict isn't the only cause of famine in Nigeria, however.
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Some 8.4 million Yemenis are on the brink of famine.
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Murder and famine, disease and displacement took a heavy toll.
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Before the Black Death, there was the Great European Famine.
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If it's "amun," rhyming with famine, they are from Winters.
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The country has a history of famine, wars, revolutions, annexations.
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Take for example the devastating famine underway in East Africa.
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At least five million people face the risk of famine.
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Somalia is also on the brink of a famine disaster.
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Bill Frist: Why Americans should care about famine in Africa.
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Famine was declared in pockets of Borno State last year.
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The North receded into deeper isolation during a devastating famine.
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Many famine survivors harbored so much shame about the dissolution of their communities that they considered the past better left undisclosed, handing down to later generations only a partial understanding of the famine years.
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Winston Churchill, for instance, told his cabinet in 1940 that troubles between Hindus and Muslims were "a bulwark of British rule", and later dismissed famine in Bengal as less important than famine in Greece.
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"This is not to say the famine didn't happen, but there are so many different stories in Ethiopia — it's not just the story of famine or the priest with the cross," Ms. Muluneh said.
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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, a monitoring group founded by the United States Agency for International Development, warned Tuesday that in three to four months, much of Yemen will be suffering from famine.
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"If there was no conflict in Yemen, there would be no descent into famine, misery, disease and death — a famine would certainly be avoidable and averted," Mr. O'Brien told the United Nations Security Council.
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The 0003 Bengal famine was the only famine in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, states the report, which was conducted by researchers in India and the United States.
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In Somalia alone, famine killed more than a quarter of a million people between 2010 and 2012, according to a study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
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Nevertheless, humanitarians insist lessons have been learned from the 2011 famine.
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Others are researching an end to famine or global climate change.
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Recently, the United Nations declared famine in parts of South Sudan.
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In February 2017, the United Nations declared famine in South Sudan.
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The war has pushed the country to the brink of famine.
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South Sudan is not unusual in having a man-made famine.
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That makes declarations of famine more political than they might appear.
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"The Great Leap Forward famine was never mentioned," Ms. Zhou said.
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One million succumbed to famine or disease, and another million emigrated.
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Ireland's licensing laws can be traced back to the potato famine.
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It's a keen adaptation to avoid the long, ruthless winter famine.
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Famine last struck pockets of Somalia in 2011, killing 260,000 people.
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That has revealed thousands of people living in famine-like conditions.
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Some seven million people are already on the brink of famine.
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Again we thank Congress for providing $990 million for famine relief.
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Les Bleus have a feast or famine record at recent tournaments.
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The code is there, whether it is war, poverty, or famine.
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It has plunged parts of the world's youngest nation into famine.
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War, famine and terrorism have prompted legions of Somalis to flee.
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He played into the 1990's, when Cuba fell into famine.
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During the famine of the 1930s, as peasants lay dying, the
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Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth From Hitler to Harvard.
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The country has for years struggled with famine and food insecurity.
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How then might we be doing in these days of famine?
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Between 1846 and 1850 1m Irish died in the potato famine.
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Of the four countries facing famine it is the least funded.
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The researchers estimate that the disaster could trigger a global famine.
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Potentially 3 million perished in the famine of the 1990s alone.
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Luckily, humanity wouldn't face a global famine like you might expect.
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There were shots of 9/11, famine, war, and factory smokestacks.
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North Korea's population was ravaged by famine from 1994 to 1998.
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The hermit, alone in his hut, risks starvation, but not famine.
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Earlier this year, pockets of the country plunged briefly into famine.
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"It is very important to remember the famine," Mr. Matvienko said.
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And now, warns the United Nations, famine stalks the tortured land.
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One reason: The prospect of a catastrophic famine has focused minds.
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It regularly arose in discussions of law, policy, war, and famine.
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"Cholera is today's crisis, famine is tomorrow's crisis," Mr. McGoldrick said.
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Perhaps it was struck by warnings of nationwide famine in Yemen?
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It is estimated that seven million people are facing famine there.
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That was the last time New York endured such a famine.
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Violent conflict and extremism thrive among poverty, famine, drought, and disease.
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"Famine" (1948) shows a group of heads apparently eating each other.
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With China besieged by famine, Mr. Li almost starved to death.
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Think of all the people who died in the Ukraine famine!
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Desperate overcrowding like this begets famine, disease, price-gouging, violent crime.
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Like Thanos in Infinity War, do you believe in a coming global overpopulation-based famine that has been predicted ever since English economist Thomas Malthus thought it up in the 1790s — despite there being fewer famine deaths in the last decade than at any time in recorded history, despite scientists telling us the end of famine is in our grasp?
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The conditions for famine are specific and not easy to meet, which is why the last time a famine was declared was in Somalia in July 2011, after 260,4.13 had died of hunger and related complications.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will provide additional aid money to South Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of the country, and to Somalia, where there is a credible risk of famine, the government said on Wednesday.
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Big airlifts began in the 1980s, when Ethiopia suffered tyranny and famine.
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There is famine in South Sudan, caused by the civil war there.
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Such a move would drastically cut aid to combat famine and disease.
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They were very slow to accept international aid when the famine began.
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Cholera has struck Sana'a, the capital, and the threat of famine looms.
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As water becomes scarce and famine more common, conflict will likely increase.
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That includes countries like China in the middle of its Great Famine.
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"Famine is already a reality in parts of South Sudan," Guterres said.
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Of these, an estimated 43,800 people already experience famine, the U.N. said.
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A victory against famine would not make a bad first year accomplishment.
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Last week, UNICEF warned that famine is imminent for the northeastern region.
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We saw this taken to the extreme during the Irish potato famine.
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In February 2017, the United Nations declared a famine in South Sudan.
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His thesis was that the famine was a hoax propagated by a
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This is, of course, an artificial scarcity; America is not in famine.
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The Migration Policy Institute recently reported on the rise of famine migration.
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A deadly famine gripped the country killing up to 2 million people.
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Those who live through a famine don't throw a single bite away.
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The event reportedly raised $245 million to fight widespread famine in Ethiopia.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have died from famine, disease and conflict.
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Any further decline in imports, the charity warns, could lead to famine.
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A three-year, hail-related famine began in northern France in 20023.
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At the time, Jacob was freelancing, an inherently feast-or-famine pursuit.
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Yemeni civilians are bearing the brunt of the war, famine and disease.
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We are gravely concerned that parts of the population could experience famine.
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The famine began in Kazakhstan and southern Russia but hit Ukraine hardest.
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I don't have to worry about famine like my Chinese grandparents did.
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The United Nations has issued dire warnings of potential famine in Yemen.
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Afghanistan was in the midst of a brutal drought with famine threatening.
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And the Dutch famine probably led to many miscarriages and early deaths.
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Even before the latest blockade, Yemen was on the brink of famine.
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Ramabai was only 16 when she lost both her parents to famine.
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For many fans this "famine or feast" has left them somewhat confused.
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It takes place during a famine, and its core theme is hunger.
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That could lead to further erosion, floods and the potential for famine.
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The diverse community has stuck it out through war, famine, and disease.
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Nearly 18 million people are hungry, with many close to famine levels.
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Millions are malnourished in Yemen where famine looms, the United Nations says.
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The conflict has also pushed the country to the brink of famine.
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By some estimates, more than a million people died in the famine.
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A famine has already been declared in a swath of South Sudan.
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Different strategies are being emphasized this time around to parry the famine.
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Victims of warfare and terrorist attacks and famine make us look fortunate.
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"My dad is still passionate about the potato famine," Ms. Williams said.
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There are resurgences of deadly disease, famine, portents of worse to come.
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That, potentially, would lead to widespread famine in a matter of years.
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A pre-famine alert was issued in February, a move that U.N. officials credit with helping to avert a repeat of the 2011 famine, when the aid response was slow and more than 250,000 people died of starvation.
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In June, a Vox headline warned of "20 million starving to death," referring to what might become "the worst famine since World War II." The famine was centered on South Sudan and affected other countries in the region.
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Following the 2011 famine, donors including the United States, Britain and the European Commission rallied speedily to avert a famine when the next drought struck East Africa in 2017 - providing almost 75 percent of the $1.8 billion needed.
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As the collector Sean Sexton notes in the exhibition video, the Irish famine of the 19th century is still widely referred to here as a "famine" rather than, as he puts it controversially, a rather more man-made "starvation".
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If you're experiencing a time famine, think about how to reclaim your schedule.
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In fact, fears of a famine on an international scale are settling in.
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Famine has been predicted; averting it will be a whole lot more complicated.
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Disaster, Pestilence, War, and Famine are riding as horsemen of a particular apocalypse.
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The crisis in the 23s pales in comparison to the famine happening today.
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Hodeida's port is critical for feeding millions of Yemenis at risk of famine.
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The following years were fraught with ideological battles, famine and hostilities with China.
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Civilization will topple, and famine and natural disasters will pick off the survivors.
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In India, as in many other developing countries, drought no longer means famine.
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Vaccination can also reduce the likelihood of famine, and the damage it causes.
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And if more aid is not forthcoming soon, a widespread famine could ensue.
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In February, the United Nations declared famine in some parts of the country.
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That famine, in which up to 21990m Bengalis died, followed a devastating cyclone.
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We are concerned at least 400,000 people could be experiencing famine-like conditions.
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The Irish first came in sizeable numbers in the famine of the 1840s.
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It&aposs often been feast or famine this year at the box office.
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Somali soldier looks onto a camp for people displaced by famine and drought.
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He worries that the NHS suffers from repeated periods of feast and famine.
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Two million are believed to have died in a famine in the 1990s.
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In the 1990s, a nationwide famine killed as many as one million people.
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Kiir's government declared a famine in some part of the country last week.
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The aid agency warned of "pockets of what is close to a famine".
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The US, it seems, isn't trying to cause a famine in the USSR.
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Aid officials are afraid to talk about famine, for fear of sounding alarmist.
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More than a quarter of the country is on the verge of famine.
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But there's no end in sight for the current famine in South Sudan.
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Most, like Noor's parents, came here in the early 1990s to flee famine.
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Famine triggered by drought and war killed 260,000 people in Somalia in 2011.
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It's said to be born of famine, in Cornwall's tiny port of Mousehole.
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Chronic hunger and famine take a devastating toll and destabilize countries and regions.
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Famine, as the most complete exploration to date of one of the twentieth
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The relief operation in South Sudan has helped avert the spread of famine.
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It is a kind of feast or famine for work, leisure and earnings.
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In addition to drought and famine, diseases, like cholera and measles are spreading.
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Some people have been hit by famine and diarrhea at the same time.
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In 2011, some 260,000 people starved to death due to famine in Somalia.
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Under the Derg regime, constant warfare, famine, and brutal political oppression plagued Ethiopia.
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Famine by definition is large numbers of people who are starving to death.
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You should be planning for interruptions and inconveniences, but needn't fear a famine.
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Yemen, the region's poorest nation even before the war, now faces potential famine.
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A formal famine declaration means people have already started to starve to death.
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This will help ensure that the looming specter of famine is chased away.
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Despite widespread famine, disease and poverty, it was a period of intense creativity.
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Then, conflict combined with famine left as many a 1 million people dead.
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He also took samples from their siblings, born before or after the famine.
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RED FAMINE Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum 461 pp. Doubleday. $35.
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"Grace" is a story of the Great Famine, but it's not narrowly political.
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The Great Leap Forward and the resulting famine are covered in one sentence.
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Disease, famine and flooding of biblical proportions are within the realm of possibility.
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In the mid-nineteenth century, late blight famously caused the Irish potato famine.
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Turkey has been a major donor to Somalia following a famine in 2011.
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Today, the threat of famine is likely to affect 20 million people globally.
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Yemen relies heavily on food imports and is on the brink of famine.
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The year 1997 may have been the worst in the North Korean famine.
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Peasant women who fled the famine became nannies for House of Government residents.
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It's a smart way to avoid extreme famine during the unrelenting Alaskan winter.
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Yemen, which has a civil war, is also on the verge of famine.
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The United Nations has said parts of Yemen are now close to famine.
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Yemen's war has killed thousands and pushed millions to the brink of famine.
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"The Bengal famine of 1943 was completely because of policy failure," Mishra said.
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"Almost 10 million are just one step away from famine," Mr. Guterres said.
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The latest available data shows that 3.2 million people in Borno, out of the state's estimated population of 5.5 million, are facing between crisis and famine levels of food insecurity (famine level means a high risk of death by starvation).
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More than 65,000 people are living in famine in pockets of northeast Nigeria, and over one million others are "one step away" from famine, a coalition of 15 aid groups including Oxfam, the International Rescue Committee and Catholic Relief Services said.
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"We may not yet be at the level of a famine but we should not wait until we have declared a famine to step up and to pressure the parties to the conflict to stop this senseless war," he said.
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JUBA/GENEVA (Reuters) - More South Sudanese people are going hungry and 45,000 are still living in famine-like conditions even though South Sudan is no longer classified as being in famine, a U.N.-backed food security report said on Wednesday.
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Famine in the foreground An estimated 20,000 people have been killed by Boko Haram, with 1.7 million displaced and threats of widespread famine now looming because of ongoing attacks and a growing internally displaced population unable to tend to their farmlands.
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In South Sudan, 100,000 people are affected by famine in a part of the country that is most troubled by the fighting between two warring armies, the United Nations announced Monday, with one million more on the brink of famine.
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Lurch needed more calories before the long winter famine hit — so he found some.
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Somalia is on the edge of famine, as severe drought threatens the entire country.
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With CRISPR, scientists could use genetic engineering to tackle problems from disease to famine.
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"Right now, east Africa is going through a major drought and famine," Ellison said.
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The majority of the 260,000 people who died during Somalia's 2011 famine were children.
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North Korea's economy has made great strides since the country's famine in the 1990s.
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IN FEBRUARY the UN declared a state of famine in parts of South Sudan.
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No one can stop love -- not armies, not hate, not persecution, not famine, nothing.
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Like extreme poverty, famine has been driven from most of the world (see article).
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IN FEBRUARY the United Nations made the first formal declaration of famine since 2011.
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Premature deaths and constant emigration continued even after the worst of the famine years.
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IN THE Bible, seven years of feast were followed by seven years of famine.
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Crises may be caused by things like conflict, poverty, famine, drought, or population displacement.
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Between 2010 and 2016, the average human's risk of dying in a famine was .
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It's feast or famine for the Detroit Tigers' offense, and right now they're starving.
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IN THE 1860s Finland suffered a famine that killed about 9% of its population.
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While covering the famine, Carter wandered into a brushy area near a feeding station.
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They are commonly known as a famine food, as they thrive in drought conditions.
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For a graphic showing famine and hunger in Africa and Middle East click - tmsnrt.
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By its very definition, when famine is declared people have already died from starvation.
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The last thing humanity can afford in the face of famine is more silence.
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With the help of foreign food aid and government funds, a famine was avoided.
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Famine, triggered by war and drought, killed one million people in Ethiopia in 1984.
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In February, the United Nations declared that parts of the country were experiencing famine.
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Besides the killing, torturing, abducting and looting, South Sudan declared famine on February 21.
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Famine is believed to have killed more than two million citizens during the 1990s.
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But the results have revealed an inconsistent offense that has feast-or-famine tendencies.
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They understand the impact on security, creating more openings for terrorism, disease and famine.
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The event — and subsequent campaign — focused on the acute danger of the Ethiopian famine.
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A famine refugee, she was born in County Cork in 1837 and ended up
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For the next two decades, the entire region was stricken with drought and famine.
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However, the government said in November that the country could face famine by January.
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But the pact stalled over control of Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions facing famine.
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Saudi Arabia has had so far—including the famine a Saudi-backed alliance is
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In the 6900s, again some 2628 million North Koreans died — this time from famine.
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North Korea's centrally planned rationing system never recovered from a famine in the 1990s.
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Key agricultural hotspots would lose the ability to grow crops, triggering a global famine.
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In the future, AI may help reduce famine and disease, but how about war?
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The four countries facing encroaching famine all share one thing in common: extreme conflict.
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More From Tonic: Researchers thought avoiding the famine reaction might improve overall weight loss.
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The next year, a full quarter of Iceland's population died in the resulting famine.
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Say goodbye to civilization, because it probably can't survive a decade-long global famine.
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We think of tulips as ornamental but within living memory they were famine food.
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The third fallacy is the assumption that Yemen is cholera-infested and famine-threatened.
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The famine that followed in the 21996s killed as many as two million people.
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After that, a vast humanitarian operation could unfold, saving Yemen from a devastating famine.
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Editorial Add cholera to the famine threat and other crises that are devastating Yemen.
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The country has suffered the worst cholera outbreak in modern history and faces famine.
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And this week, the United Nations declared famine in a patch of South Sudan.
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North Korea has never formally acknowledged how many died during its devastating 1990s famine.
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In the scale's five phases, Phase 1 is minimal and Phase 5 is famine.
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In a bad year, maybe one country in Africa will be hit by famine.
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Key agricultural hotspots could lose the ability to grow crops, triggering a global famine.
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Meanwhile, the Houthis face what the UN says is a famine in their territory.
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The Maduro administration might implode, and the country's hunger crisis could escalate to famine.
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Somalia is headed into a drought, which could lead to a famine this spring.
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In my journalistic career, I've worked alongside women covering war, genocide, riots and famine.
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Researchers studied the health of babies born during the Dutch famine in 1944-45.
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Many of us have ancestors who came to the US fleeing famine or oppression.
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The United Nations had warned that a total blockade could cause a famine that could kill millions in Yemen, where 2-1/2 years of war has killed at least 10,000 people and unleashed famine and disease in the already impoverished country.
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No matter the ultimate victor, both are exceptionally well-endowed for the long winter famine.
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The United Nations says that more than half died before the famine was even declared.
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Nuclear war, should it come, would cause further catastrophic climate disruption and widespread global famine.
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In South Sudan, a famine affecting more than 7.5 million people has been declared. 4.
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The entire Irish population thrived for centuries on almost only potatoes, before the potato famine.
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The feeling of not having enough time is known as "time famine" in psychology parlance.
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Famine eventually abated last year, but the country is now teetering on the brink again.
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And for all intents and purposes, those are the only significant causes of famine today.
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As a teenager, she survived China&aposs Great Leap Forward, Great Famine and Cultural Revolution.
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About 7 million people face famine in Yemen and their survival depends on international assistance.
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This could cause massive famine, leaving a billion or more people at risk of starvation.
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I lived through the great famine that hit China, and the economic recovery that followed.
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The number of deaths caused by famine has dropped precipitously over the past few decades.
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Famine, cholera and diphtheria affect about eight million people, including two million severely malnourished children.
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This was followed by the death of many people and famine throughout Germany and Italy.
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Memories of an earlier famine here, in 1942, mingle with the later one, they say.
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Unfortunately, Bloodline's familial drama has so far turned out to be more famine than feast.
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Power cuts became widespread; the regime subjected an already calorie-poor North Korea to famine.
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It is the first famine to be declared anywhere in the world in six years.
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But hey, that's not a bad thing, because there wouldn't be war or famine anymore.
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The country is facing widespread hunger and pockets of famine caused by conflict and drought.
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Unlike a traditional famine, a lot of the losses will be in higher-income countries.
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No evidentiary smoking gun has yet emerged demonstrating orders from the Kremlin to impose famine.
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WHEN people think of nutritional woes in the developing world, they probably think of famine.
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In 1990s North Korea's Stalinist, quasi-feudal rulers rode out a mass famine without falling.
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According to experts on the ground, massive disease outbreaks and famine are in Haiti's future.
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Cutting North Korea's oil supply would not directly cause famine or the collapse of society.
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And he notes my affliction wouldn't even have offered a leg up during the Famine.
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Nor was the Indian famine some sort of wartime aberration from an otherwise reasonable record.
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The war has killed tens of thousands and pushed millions to the brink of famine.
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A vast silence has spread across South Sudan where famine was first declared in February.
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The war has killed tens of thousands and put Yemen on the brink of famine.
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If this is what bounty looks like in this country, what will a famine bring?
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The war that killed tens of thousands and thrust Yemen to the verge of famine.
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Past research has shown a physiological response to famine can be passed down across generations.
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We must save Yemen from famine while helping bring an end to their civil war.
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It is the first official famine since 2011, when drought caused 260,000 deaths in Somalia.
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This is why the crisis in South Sudan is being called a man-made famine.
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Northern Uganda (CNN)Almost a million people have fled famine and violence in South Sudan.
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He said some places didn't do land reform well and that's why the famine happened.
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Another overlooked factor is the lingering damage of the great famine from 1959 to 1962.
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Eight million people are on the brink of famine, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
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There needn't have been a famine: Food was exported to England all across those hungry
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Ethiopia is among the poorest countries in the world, and also suffers from recurring famine.
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In caveman days, that impulse helped avoid spoiled food or prevent hunger during a famine.
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"Any further decline in imports could likely lead directly to famine," Save the Children warned.
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Following a catastrophic famine in the 1990s, North Korea pushed to increase its agricultural production.
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Conflict with Boko Haram is the primary cause for near-famine conditions in northeast Nigeria.
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She stays with hermits and holy women, basking in her celebrity, prophesying famine and slaughter.
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The war has killed at least 10,000 people and has pushed impoverished Yemen towards famine.
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Read more: Somalia's new president inherits a country on the brink of disaster and famine
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The state stopped providing regular rations during the famine, and never fully resumed the program.
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The economy is in a tailspin, harvests are devastated by drought and millions face famine.
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This is not the first time we humans are dealing with famine and food shortage.
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Aid experts say 4503 million are on the brink of famine after years without harvests.
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Last month, the United Nations said parts of South Sudan are already suffering from famine.
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A year ago, South Sudan declared famine in two regions, but international responses checked it.
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Warning of humanitarian catastrophe and the possibility of famine, he implored the mission to act.
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The 2018 total was the lowest since 1961, a year struck by a terrible famine.
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But with a legacy of famine, Kim also says he wants to boost people's prosperity.
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Another showed a link between famine in one generation and body mass in the next.
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I want blood and guts in my work... jealousy, rape, mayhem, pestilence, famine and flood.
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The famine in Yemen could become the worst the world has seen in a generation.
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Right now, in Yemen, a famine has left 22017 million people extremely close to starvation.
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It shelters more than 270,000 people who have fled famine in war-torn South Sudan.
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The United Nations has warned that any disruption to the port risks triggering a famine.
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Severe famine had struck Ethiopia, poverty was mounting and her country was in political turmoil.
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They also looked at a control group of 1,088 women born after the famine ended.
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By the time American forces were relieved the following May, the famine was greatly relieved.
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Shida is a two-year-old living in a famine-stricken village in southwest Somalia.
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His uplifting reggae music has been used to help thousands of famine victims in Africa.
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Aid officials warn that Yemen, consumed by civil war, is on the verge of famine.
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In a recent book, writer Madhusree Mukerjee argued the famine was exacerbated by Churchill's decisions.
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They lived in a feast or famine world where malnutrition and starvation were constant threats.
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Die-hard fans of the acidic comedian Dave Chappelle have gone from famine to feast.
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Drought in East Africa threw the region into a famine crisis in 2011 and 2012.
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Under his rule, North Korea's grossly mismanaged economy sagged and its people suffered a famine.
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Famine was a political-economy problem, Sen argued, not a problem of resources per se.
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Three years into Yemen's brutal civil war, the U.N. says the Arab world's poorest country is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet, and that famine is imminent — a famine that may be accelerated with the help of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The specter of clashing nationalisms also runs through Applebaum's new book, "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine," a richly detailed history of the great famine, peaking in 1933, which killed an estimated five million or more Soviets, more than 3.9 million of them Ukrainian.
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Curtis founded Comic Relief in 1985 with comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.
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When Kim Jong Il took over in 94 that&aposs when the famine started getting worse.
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About 8 million people are on the brink of famine with outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria.
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The organization's humanitarian coordinator says more than 210 million people are threatened by famine and starvation.
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China's famine during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-62 caused between 20m and 55m deaths.
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Three other countries, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, have what it calls a "credible risk of famine".
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These days famine is never just a natural disaster; it is always a product of politics.
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Parts of South Sudan, the world's newest country, are now officially in a state of famine.
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The idea of the IPC scale, which was developed in 2004, is to make famine technocratic.
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Indians got their freedom but only after a wartime famine in Bengal killed at least 2m.
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It is the man-made conflict that is driving hunger and driving the conditions for famine.
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When famine struck North Korea in the 1990s, millions broke the law by selling smuggled food.
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When famine struck North Korea in the 22011s, millions broke the law by selling smuggled food.
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The United Nations says the assault on Hodeidah could trigger a famine imperiling millions of lives.
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At 14, becomes one of Australia's schools' biggest fundraisers, raising money during a 40-hour famine.
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It's trained on hundreds of thousands of humans across the globe fleeing persecution, famine, and war.
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Others will just fall victim to ethnic conflict or famine, feeding the next wave of refugees.
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Heading the list is the multi-year famine that hit North Korea from 1995 to 2002.
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In the broader nickel market, moreover, a new supply surge is building, promising feast not famine.
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Because this famine doesn't go away just because DC decides it's not going to fund things.
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Famine struck, and the men of the colony grew discontent with living under a woman's thumb.
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Francisco Rodríguez, an economist in New York who has advised the moderate opposition, warns of famine.
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So the overall picture of the 2016 summer box office is one of feast creating famine.
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When the British withheld food during the Irish potato famine, they were thinking along Malthusian lines.
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A famine in Somalia in 2011 caused by drought and war killed more than 260,000 people.
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"Yemen is one step away from famine," UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien said earlier this week.
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Hodeida is the main entry for food into a country already on the brink of famine.
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At least 100,000 South Sudanese are facing famine today, and one million more are desperately close.
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This famine is entirely man-made, driven by conflict that disrupts food production and humanitarian access.
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And as far as the ICSG is concerned, refined copper is in neither feast nor famine.
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They have cited the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where famine and disease have ravaged the populace.
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While the famine is over, the country remains very poor, with hunger and malnutrition serious problems.
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We're makers and doers and creators and we enter times of feast and times of famine.
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"[W]hen climate conditions started to deteriorate, crops started to fail leading to famine," McConnell said.
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We won the peace after World War II because we fought famine and fed the hungry.
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The famine is "wiping out an entire generation of distressed professionals", notes a credit-fund manager.
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FACT: Many of these asylum seekers are escaping rampant violence, famine or persecution in Central America.
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The conflict has led parts of the oil-producing country into famine and paralyzed public services.
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This is not the kind of famine that happens because of bad weather or poor climate.
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This is man-made famine, and we bear a startling amount of responsibility for it. Why?
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About 7 million people face famine in Yemen and their survival is dependent on international assistance.
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He was born in Somalia, which was ravaged by civil war and famine in the 1990s.
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History was supposedly over, and real catastrophe—famine, fire, fascism—had been banished from the world.
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Saudi Arabia cannot afford to be seen, or accused, of causing a famine on its doorstep.
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"Yemen is one step away from famine," U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council.
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For years, researchers pointed at wars, famine and the possibility of invaders taking over Mayan communities.
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Today, there are four nations (Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia) threatened by famine because of war.
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The U.N. recently declared South Sudan's famine "man-made," putting 2503 million in need of aid.
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The UN says famine looms as over half the population, or 14.4 million people, face hunger.
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"Anyone over the age of 20 there has memories of living in a famine," says Cockerell.
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The Irish fled famine, the Germans fled political instability, and Italians primarily wanted better economic opportunity.
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Famine looks like aid workers saving lives by handing out Plumpy'nut, packages of fortified nutritional paste.
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Walter Duranty, The Times's correspondent in the Soviet Union, insisted the stories of famine were false.
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How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's principal henchmen in the famine?
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Nobody sees such overreach producing anything as calamitous as Mao's Great Leap Forward and subsequent famine.
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Famine in the region threatens 20 million people, the worst such combined crisis in recent memory.
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During the Great Famine of 2500-227, local lacemakers were credited with keeping many families alive.
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It resonates with the feelings that arise when one views images of famine, war or slavery.
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The conflict has resulted in widespread famine and disease as well as thousands of civilian casualties.
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Because of the injustice that had been done to her, Demeter inflicted famine on the land.
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North Korea suffered a devastating famine in the mid-1990s and has a chronic food shortage.
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It's a question some readers asked after we published a recent article on Yemen's looming famine.
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What Dr. Virchow found in Upper Silesia was a district ravaged by famine and economic depression.
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Through its young heroine, we experience all the describable and indescribable horrors of the Irish famine.
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Famine on such a scale creates a breeding pool for violence, extremism and unconscionable human suffering.
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"It's a disaster on the edge of famine ... Yemeni society and families are exhausted," Aslami said.
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Today, the world faces an unprecedented hunger crisis, with four countries on the verge of famine.
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What is the good of political and economic equality in a flooded, burning, famine-ridden world?
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This will increase the risk of famine and the rise of disease and other infectious diseases.
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Now the country is being stalked by famine, and famines tend to pick off the youngest.
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The latest shopping event to save everyone from this deal famine is the Simba Winter Sale.
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In other words, it's important to realize that we might be contributing to our time famine.
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Life for many Somali refugees means confronting famine, anarchy, pestilence and death on a daily basis.
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The UN says half of Yemen's population -- about 14 million people -- are at risk of famine.
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The United Nations says the assault on Hodeidah could trigger a famine imperilling millions of lives.
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They endure harsh, brutal lives, months of famine (hibernation), violent fights, and incessant threats by competitors.
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Misunderstood tragedies -- like famine, plague and infant mortality -- made people even more afraid of the unknown.
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The United Nations says two-thirds of Yemen's 26 million people need assistance to avert famine.
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His parents grew up without proper educations in rural villages haunted by the memories of famine.
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Famine-like conditions are raging in the area, a region with a rich history of agriculture.
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The Great Famine looks like a fourteenth-century example of what we now call extreme weather.
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She wrote that famine was caused in part by large-scale exports of food from India.
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The drought has put Somalia on the brink of famine and is endangering several other countries.
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Malnutrition certainly played its part; famine victims, especially children, were compromised by a lack of nutrients.
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Today, 30 million people are at risk of famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen and Somalia.
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The death toll from the resulting famine was likely compounded by bad timing, the team said.
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Airstrikes have hit hospitals and hindered delivery of supplies, spurring the spread of famine and cholera.
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"Red Famine" presents a Bolshevik government so hell-bent on extracting wealth and controlling labour that it was willing to confiscate the last remaining grain from hungry peasants (mostly but not exclusively in Ukraine) and then block them from fleeing famine-afflicted areas to search for food.
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The conflict has pushed Yemen, the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula, to the verge of famine.
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Written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, the chart-topping single raised money for African famine relief.
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South Sudan, which gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, has endured war political instability and famine.
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Widespread famine caused by conflict and drought has pushed 30 million people to the brink of starvation.
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"Even during the famine years [from 1994-8], North Korea collapsed economically but not politically," Smith said.
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The United Nations says about 14 million people, or half of Yemen's population, could soon face famine.
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In Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, FEWS Net states there is a "credible risk of famine".
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That summer, the U.N. issued the first of its many warnings that famine was possible in Yemen.
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The United Nations has said that a total blockade could cause a famine that could kill millions.
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North Korea was still reeling from a famine that had killed millions of people in the 2900s.
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A famine was declared in parts of South Sudan, caused by a civil war and economic collapse.
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Helped raise funds to deliver a plane full of food and water to famine victims in Somalia.
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This has always been a kind of feast or famine business, but that's part of the fun.
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Its GDP per person increased tenfold between 1960 and 2008, despite the famine and the Cultural Revolution.
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They proved that despite having faced famine and war, they'd never give up on a sporting dream.
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The last paper deals with late potato blight, the disease blamed for Ireland's famine in the 1800s.
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The UN says Yemen is on the brink of famine, with 8m people in danger of starving.
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The conflict has pushed impoverished Yemen to the verge of famine with millions relying on food aid.
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Undermined by treachery, famine, and smallpox, and overwhelmed by technically superior weapons, the Aztec empire was destroyed.
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Almost half the population lacks reliable access to enough food, says the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
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Tens of thousands live on the brink of famine and millions more lack secure access to food.
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The war has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions on the brink of famine.
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The guns had mostly fallen silent, but millions were still dying from famine, disease or civil strife.
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Famine, civil war, and a foreign blockade prevented the importation of foreign films, raw film, and equipment.
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Such an offensive could disrupt supply lines, risking a mass famine in the poorest Arabian Peninsula nation.
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Nearly a million have been hit by a cholera outbreak and famine threatens much of the country.
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We must choose to prevent famine by investing in development and food assistance for communities in need.
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"Have you seen my new Whisky Watch?" starving farmers asked their neighbors during the Highland Potato Famine.
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In 1943, famine struck the state of Bengal in India, leading to an some three million deaths.
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In it he recounted his own experience of hunger during China's great famine in the early 1960s.
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Chris de Bode is an Amsterdam-based photographer who has covered famine multiple times in his career.
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The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
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Famine isn't caused by overpopulation, and as Ethiopia's experience shows, it's not a necessary consequence of drought.
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Famine struck in parts of South Sudan in 2017 while warnings were sounded in Nigeria and Somalia.
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Food prices in Zambia's southwestern maize belt have risen, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
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"Emergency" is phase four of a five-point scale used by food agencies, where five is famine.
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A quarter of the population of Yemen is on the brink of famine, according to U.N. data.
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Yemen is now facing a near famine and one of the worst outbreaks of cholera in decades.
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The United Nations has said nearly seven million people in Yemen are one step away from famine.
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Congressional action on Yemen could end a particularly awful conflict that has produced mass famine and cholera.
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The country's civil war erupted in late 2013, uprooting a quarter of the population and causing famine.
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Yet the potential for an avocado famine became a story in itself, spawning hundreds of stories online.
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In fact, it was a feast or famine struggle for many years — including the 2008-2009 recession.
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Hundreds of thousands have perished from famine; many others have died in clan fighting and suicide attacks.
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Earlier this year, the U.N. briefly declared a famine in the northern rebel stronghold of Unity state.
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Failed harvests in traditional food basket areas have triggered famine in a country rich in oil resources.
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"An invisible food crisis ... risks turning famine warnings into a reality over the coming months," Oxfam said.
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It will have a huge impact in terms of how we tackle global hunger and famine issues.
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Aden Karow Aden, 30, came from Bakool in Somalia after a famine struck the country in 2011.
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The 'year without summer,ʼ 1816, was wet and cold causing widespread crop failures, famine, and emigration.
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But in Yemen, famine isn't caused by a bad harvest or a drought -- it's caused by man.
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At Ohio State University, I studied the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1800s.
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And then I planted seeds that would never grow in the pressurized atmosphere—and created mass famine.
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The prospect of famine has created what the United Nations describes as the world's biggest humanitarian crisis.
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As the Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen has shown, true democracy is the best antidote to famine.
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That is not nearly enough to get urgently needed food to nearly seven million Yemenis facing famine.
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During the Potato Famine, some landlords had shipped their produce overseas rather than feed their starving tenants.
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Fighting in Yemen has intensified sharply, threatening to plunge the country deeper into war, cholera and famine.
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As a photojournalist, he has chronicled flood, war, famine, joy, refugee migrations, street life, and political oppression.
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The country is also facing famine, which was officially declared in some northern areas earlier this year.
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It was in fact much worse than that, she went on: terror, man-made famine, mass murder.
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Mr. Wu's son, Wu Ye, 51, helped his father build the famine memorial in their home village.
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The Yemen war has killed more than 100,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of famine.
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Wars break infrastructure; disrupt commerce; and set conditions for famine, unrest, opportunistic disease outbreaks, and mass displacements.
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"This is a clear-cut decline into massive famine that is man-made and avoidable," he said.
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By 2050, humanity must produce 60 percent more food than it does now to avoid worldwide famine.
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Famine is declared when, among other criteria, two or more people out of 10,000 die every day.
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Freelancers undergo periods of high pay and low pay, often referenced as the "feast or famine" cycle.
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The entwining of wars and famine has multiplied the magnitude of deaths among Somalia's farmers and herders.
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Sadly, the United Nations and the international community have also refrained from describing it as a famine.
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There was a clear sense that the current famine was more lethal than the one in 2011.
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Mr. Lowcock gave the example of drought in Somalia: It's not enough to predict hunger and famine.
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Here nomads and camel herders endure this new war as they have always endured drought and famine.
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Rather, they should be places where victims of political instability, famine and drought can safely take refuge.
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According to USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network, the current season is Zambia's driest in 35 years.
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They only have a vision of Africa from the past, as a continent of war and famine.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said famine was an issue of peace and security.
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And there's history on the Irish famine, which is what drove so many Irish people to America.
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But even just half a century ago some historians treated the rain as incidental to the famine.
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Ireland has a long history of verifiable tragedies: centuries of British occupation, famine, emigration and sectarian violence.
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"But I'm not unhappy to be associated with Christmas: better than famine, flood or war," he said.
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The resulting fall in population looks not dissimilar to what happened to Ireland during the 553s famine.
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This culminated in a massive famine, called the "Arduous March" in North Korea, between 1994 and 1998.
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I see the same thing happening with fasting where we evolved going through feast and famine cycles.
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The country is on the brink of yet another famine, which could see more people considering piracy.
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It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011.
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It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims.
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"Famine is elective because, at its core, it is an artifact and a tool of political repression," de Waal wrote in the New York Times: After countries have passed a certain threshold of prosperity and development, peace, political liberalization and greater government accountability are the best safeguards against famine.
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Yemen "is one step away" from devastating famine, UN aid chief warns Yemen "is one step away" from devastating famine, UN aid chief warns The civil war in Yemen between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition has claimed more than 212,222 lives since it started in March 2100.
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"#Somalia needs development projects to avoid reccurring famine for good," tweeted the country's minister of information, Abdirahman Osman.
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"The children are going hungry... This conflict is pushing Yemen closer to famine day after day," he said.
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Somalia, which has suffered from 25 years of conflict, is currently threatened by a famine caused by drought.
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The key point to remember is that both financiers and warehouse operators profit from metal surplus, not famine.
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In an interview with CNN, recorded in October, Gates talked about his commitment to tackling disease and famine.
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"Have you forgotten about the Great Famine, building that?" one user posted on the Twitter-like service Weibo.
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That marked an increase from past U.N. estimates of around 8 million people on the brink of famine.
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The crisis has fueled widespread hunger in Somalia, parts of Kenya and Ethiopia and famine in South Sudan.
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If these, along with the peacekeepers, were to be gutted, the risks of famine and war would soar.
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Not so: China's famine during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-62 caused between 20m and 55m deaths.
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The UN says that some 20m people are also at risk of famine in Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.
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Water and sanitation systems are destroyed, Diseases spread, and farmlands are devastated, followed by hunger, famine, and migration.
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His tooth enamel stopped growing when he was young, suggesting he suffered from sickness or famine early on.
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Mr Foreman's ancestors on the paternal side fled Ireland for America during the Great Famine in the 1840s.
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And our hardwired survival instincts don't know the difference between a 30-day cleanse and a famine, either.
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"It's feast or famine," he said, but he usually writes at least five or six summonses a day.
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Washington, which has been slow to act, seems to finally be taking steps to help fight the famine.
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The war has devastated the country's infrastructure and driven much of its population to the brink of famine.
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Meanwhile, the fighting has left 10m Yemenis "one step away from famine", warns the UN's World Food Programme.
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By March, it's estimated 4-5 million people will be in hunger with 26,21-22,23 in famine conditions.
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It has also plunged districts into famine, nearly halved oil production and threatened to destabilize a volatile region.
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Hall used contacts and leverage acquired during humanitarian work in the 1990s, when deadly famine gripped North Korea.
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Her grace and coordination was on display as she toured the Irish Famine Memorial, surrounded entirely by cobblestones.
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Add loneliness to what Hidaka calls our culture's "famine of time," and you get lonely, busy, depressed people.
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The conflict has put 10 million people at risk of famine in the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.
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There is war, there is famine, there is a palpable sense of things having reached a breaking point.
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Humanitarian efforts have eased South Sudan's famine, but 6 million people still struggle to find food every day.
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The big picture: DRC joins a growing list of humanitarian crises, including growing famine and disease in Yemen.
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It is a feast or famine phenomenon, if no blockbusters emerge to take their place the following year.
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President Trump's new arms agreement with Saudi Arabia ignores the most urgent threat in the Middle East: famine.
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Watch the video above to understand the circumstances around each famine and why they're so difficult to solve.
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Cameras mounted on polar bears have captured the fine line between feast and famine that characterizes bear life.
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Back then, water shortages and conflict combined to cause a famine that killed an estimated one million people.
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Tens of millions perished in the famine Mao created with his "Great Leap Forward" of the late 1950s.
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Given the destruction in Kazakhstan, Kotkin rejects out of hand the argument that the famine was specifically Ukrainian.
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He was born there; his elder brother died in the great famine and is buried in St Petersburg.
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I was already 47 when I went on my first story, to cover the famine in South Sudan.
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While in hiding, Park fell in love with another defector whose own son had died in the famine.
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As Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate, has pointed out, no democracy with a free press ever endured famine.
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Climate change itself will produce further military conflict as a result of drought, famine, flooding, and forced migration.
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Mao, memorialized in this statue, was a controversial figure who was blamed for famine and millions of deaths.
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Thousands of civilians have been killed and the country has been hit by a cholera outbreak and famine.
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The drought, however, is threatening to erase some of the fragile gains and tip the country into famine.
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A related pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, was responsible for the Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the mid-1800s.
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Satyajit Ray's 1973 movie "Distant Thunder" depicted one of those terrible episodes, the Bengal famine of 1942-43.
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War and famine led to a social and economic crisis that saw farms and settlements abandoned and destroyed.
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The United Nations had said the blockade could spark the largest famine the world has seen in decades.
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The pair also reported from northern Yemen, where an economic war risks tipping the country into widespread famine.
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The United States supplies bombs and other support for the war that's killed civilians and is creating famine.
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"I don't think the world is going to tolerate or watch another famine in Somalia," Mr. Lowcock said.
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The ongoing Yemeni civil war has pushed the country closer to collapse and to the brink of famine.
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No reports of widespread starvation have emerged from North Korea, which was ravaged by famine in the 1990s.
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I don't know a lot of people who scroll YouTube looking for videos of civil war or famine.
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And during the Great Famine, in 1921, they began making a clean sweep of everything edible. Poultry. Cattle.
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"This is a bill about preventing a famine for 14 million Yemenis," Mr. Khanna said in an interview.
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Now, the women's side has gone from feast to famine, with only one player in the top 150.
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Maybe the Dutch famine made some types of cells more common, he said, rather than altering the epigenetics.
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The situation facing Yemen's 28 million citizens is painfully difficult, with famine and malnutrition exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
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The Irish Hunger Memorial commemorates the 20013th-centruy potato famine with stones from each of Ireland's 32 counties.
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The 1960s best seller "The Population Bomb" predicted that "famine and food riots" would "sweep" across the country.
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"There is no widespread famine at this point, but some people are going hungry," says Myatiev, from Turkmen.news.
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Yet Lynch's lush, poetic prose deliberately and painfully acts as a foil to the reality of the famine.
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He died in the famine after being denounced by officials for asking for more food for fellow villagers.
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In recent years, tens of millions of Africans have fled areas afflicted with famine, drought, persecution, and violence.
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When many Americans think of famine, they might picture parched fields or dried-up riverbeds caused by drought.
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Trees help retain more water in the soil, which improves agricultural yields and reduces the risk of famine.
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And the global refugee crisis is growing, driven by conflict, drought, and famine, all exacerbated by climate change.
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Each country facing famine is in war, or in the case of Somalia, recovering from decades of conflict.
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I would turn on CNN to see what Wolf Blitzer had to say about war, famine, disruption abroad.
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In the 1990s, when Russian subsidies disappeared, a famine killed up to 10 percent of North Korea's population.
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In 1974, I lived in Somalia when the rains failed and a drought worked itself into a famine.
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The brain interprets dieting and restriction as a famine, which causes the storage of fat for future shortages.
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Despite a looming famine for nearly 20 million people, he said, the budget cuts funding for disaster assistance.
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The single largest increase in the bill was the almost $28500 billion of new money for famine relief.
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Of the 20 million who are at risk of famine are 1.4 million children, who are most vulnerable.
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A formal famine declaration is rare — in the past 25 years, only a handful have been made worldwide.
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"The Security Council has finally acknowledged the clear link between conflict and famine," she said in a statement.
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He fled the Great Famine, immigrating to New York in 1851 as a stowaway when he was 12.
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It was always feast or famine, and I felt like I&aposd been on an emotional roller coaster.
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He fanned his elderly mother, whose cavernous eye sockets and protruding cheekbones bore the telltale signature of famine.
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Additionally, more than 3 million people have been displaced, and the country is on the brink of famine.
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We can't work with that—he has the body of a ten-year-old barely surviving a famine!
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Ireland exported around 300,000 tons of grain annually from 1846 to 1848, in the teeth of the famine.
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Famine has ravaged the country, and so has the largest and fastest-spreading cholera outbreak in modern history.
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But construction ground to a halt in 1993 due to famine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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