Accepted Quote by Jean Dreze

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition…

— Amartya Sen

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

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

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop…

— 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

“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

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no…

— Indira Gandhi

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

“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

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

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

— Mark Winne

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