Another Quote by Hawa Abdi

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

“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to metastasize into…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work,…

— Michele Bachmann

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“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

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

— Daniel Deleon

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

Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

— David Sedaris