Case Quote by David Attenborough

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 don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

— Coretta Scott King

There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no food to…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

“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

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

“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

“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

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there…

— Catherine Bertini

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life…

— Jean Dreze

Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to…

— Rajiv Shah

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely…

— Thomas Pogge