Avert Quote by Catherine Bertini

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 talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are…

— David Attenborough

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are bringing them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

“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

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than…

— Amartya Sen

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 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

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage…

— Norman Borlaug

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not…

— David Attenborough