Famine Quote by Joseph Hume

“The British tended to base their refusal to intervene in famines with adequate governmental measures on a combination of three sets of considerations: free…

— Shashi Tharoor

Famine is a consequence of poverty.

— David Hepworth

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

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

— Gautama Buddha

“If there are forty thousand people in an area that can only support thirty thousand, it’s no kindness to bring in food from the…

— 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

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

“To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker’s bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff or…

— Michael Pollan

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start…

— Jonathan Sacks

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it…

— Jung Chang

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 is simply working to ensure that the farmers get better price discovery for their produce.

— Anurag Thakur