In the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, drought conditions led to a devastating famine.

Despite the decade long war, Sierra Leone did not experience mass starvation, because of the long rainy season and the very fertile land.

The specter of mass starvation loomed.

Famine.

Starvation was being used as a weapon of mass destruction primitive but extremely effective.

And then, you see, these were famine years.

Famine mostly is a rural event now.

Representatives of States from various parts of the world expressed sympathy in connection with the victims of Holodomor and deplored the acts and policies that caused mass starvation and killed millions of people.

...of any lawful impediment...

Fully 90 per cent of the world's hungry were in the second situation, afflicted by structural hunger.

Or to feed in times of famine

Or the feeding on a day of hunger.

or giving food upon a day of hunger

Or, feeding, in a day of privation,

Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine),

or giving food on a day of hunger

And to feed in the day of hunger.

or feeding, during days of general starvation,

the giving of food upon the day of hunger

Or feeding on a day of severe hunger

or, in a day of famine, the feeding of

Or the giving of food in a day of hunger

or the feeding in times of famine

Or the giving of food in a day of privation

Let them starve for a year!

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

I hear there's a famine I Rome.

Global famine was inevitable.

How costly that is!

It was taken by Kevin Carter who went to the Sudan to document their famine there.

Elsewhere in Africa there was famine.

It was the middle of that awful famine.

Then our weapon is starvation.

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

During the first two quarters of 1998, with pre famine conditions developing into famine, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians crossed the threshold from subsistence to starvation.

The Hunger Winter, as it came to be known, killed some 10,000 people and weakened thousands more.

As observed during earlier meetings, millions of people in Africa continue to bear the brunt of famine, extreme poverty and pandemics, and they survive each day in squalor.

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

Yet again, the face of starvation at large scale with more than nine million people wondering if they can make it to the next day.

Not only in our provinces of

When drought brought a population to the verge of famine, it was possible to mobilize massive emergency assistance.

So we have these feast and famine cycles.

To be sure, one can try to deal in isolation with climate change, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, famine and disease.

Campaigners across Europe and the US use the threat of starvation to argue for drastic carbon cuts. For most regions, weather changes will increase agricultural productivity.

In 2001 we experienced an awful famine.