“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.” — Jane B. Reece Copy Share Image
“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu,… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The New Testament speaks of “a great famine all over the world” that took place in the reign of emperor Claudius (Acts… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
“Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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