Banishing Starvation

The specter of mass starvation loomed.

We can beat extreme poverty, starvation, AIDS.

Many children die of starvation in Africa.

or feeding, during days of general starvation,

or feeding, during days of general starvation,

They have little slogans, like Salvation through Starvation.

Friends like Lual who died by my side, of starvation.

The survivors were found on an island, dying of starvation.

And we do not want to relegate the urban poor to starvation.

I couldn't understand the starvation, the destruction, the killing of innocent people.

A drought or pest that destroys a harvest turns subsistence into starvation.

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

These individuals' prenatal experience of starvation seems to have changed their bodies in myriad ways.

In southern Sudan, another civil war saw similar use of starvation as a means of genocide.

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

So the question is, why did these men dread cannibals so much more than the extreme likelihood of starvation?

Only recently, we were confronted with a situation where in excess of 1 million people faced starvation in the Niger.

We can call this place in Congo a death camp, because those who are not killed will die of disease or starvation.

With hunger, famine and starvation prevalent in all corners of the world, notably in Africa, the United Nations task is simply enormous.

But, with the right programs, we can produce enough food for everyone. Indeed, by taking the right actions now, we can eradicate starvation.

For those adolescents who are already overweight and obese, Ding Gangqiang advised that starvation therapy or semi starvation therapy should be avoided to control and lose weight in addition to the active and scientific arrangement of diet and movement since the adolescents are in a special physiological stage. They should not take drugs blindly to lose weight.

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

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.

Every year, WFP provides food aid to millions of vulnerable people who would risk their livelihoods and in many cases face starvation without humanitarian assistance.

Not six months later, in July 2002, Ethiopia announced a major food crisis, to the same proportions as 1984 14 million people at risk of starvation.

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.

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.

In 1984, in what can only be considered one of the greatest crimes of humanity, nearly one million people died of starvation in my country of birth, Ethiopia.

There will be a rise in sea levels, more malaria, starvation, and poverty. Concern has been great, but humanity has done very little that will actually prevent these outcomes.

In the new kinds of conflicts prevalent today, civilians are harmed in various ways, including by forced displacement, forced conscription, violence, indiscriminate killing, starvation, disease and loss of livelihood.

Because of climate panic, our attempts to mitigate climate change have provoked an unmitigated disaster. We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.

Even if he can vote to choose his rulers, a young man with AIDS who cannot read or write and lives on the brink of starvation is not truly free.

I am convinced that underdevelopment, poverty, starvation, the fatal outcome of otherwise curable diseases and the lack of even basic education create an environment in which terrorists are bred and recruited.

They wished they knew how to prevent their food supply from sometimes failing, and how they could rest when they were tired without risking starvation, be warmer, cooler, safer, in less pain.

The living conditions resulting from those crimes have led to the deaths of tens of thousands from disease and starvation, particularly affecting such vulnerable groups as children, the sick and the elderly.

Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in traveling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road. Training animals to perform tricks often involves starvation and cruelty.

Our leadership must also show the ability to respond promptly, with compassion and generosity, to those in immediate need, those suffering from severe starvation and those hit by famine, such as in Niger.

And at a time of economic collapse when people sold baby dolls and shoe laces and windows and doors just to survive, these girls made the difference between survival and starvation for so many.

And at a time of economic collapse when people sold baby dolls and shoe laces and windows and doors just to survive, these girls made the difference between survival and starvation for so many.

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rates of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool and Sanaag plateau of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rate of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool, Sanaag and Togdheer plateaux of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

Historians tell us that the Luddites were victims of a temporary conjuncture of rising prices and falling wages that threatened them with starvation in a society with minimal welfare provision. The Luddites, however, blamed their misfortune on the machines themselves.

The Club of Rome s monumental book The Limits to Growth came out in 1972, with a picture of the earth on its cover. The book, written by a team of scientists, predicted disastrous shortages and mass starvation due to population pressure.