Broads Quote by Amartya Sen

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The…

— Amber Rudd

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look…

— Amber Rudd

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the…

— Murray Rothbard

“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food…

— Daniel Quinn

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one…

— Amartya Sen

When we talk about famine, people start listing, as I have, its many different elements. We must not let the complexity of the subject…

— Amber Rudd

“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little stores we…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional, and they are almost always caused by human politics rather…

— Yuval Noah Harari

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it…

— Jung Chang

“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”

— Jane B. Reece

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary,…

— Michel Chossudovsky