Bronze-age Quote by Eric H. Cline

“Thus, Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean societies had the misfortune to arise in an ecologically fragile environment. They committed ecological suicide by destroying their…

— Jared Diamond

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

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

“The equatorial monsoons which brought a rainy season to the coasts had small effect here in the highlands, from moon to moon, the rainfall…

— Peter Matthiessen

“In the past 100 years alone, the region experienced three devastating droughts. The first stretched from 1910 to 1916; the second stretched from 1941…

— Heidi Cullen

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

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

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

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

— Jane B. Reece

In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the…

— Lester R. Brown

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed,…

— Peter Garrett

“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