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It's not something everyone can get behind the way they get behind helping Haiti, or ending AIDS, or fighting a famine.
There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.
And this was yet another famine in Ethiopia.
Technology is transforming the face of food vulnerability in places where you see classic famine.
And it turns out Nick shows up at the children's hospital with this distended belly, like a famine victim.
So in 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time.
It was taken by Kevin Carter who went to the Sudan to document their famine there.
That's part of Sally Struthers's famine campaign.
Many tropes about Africa persist from pictures, pictures of famine in Ethiopia 30 years ago, pictures of the Biafran war half a century ago.
And this leads to severe repercussions, including episodes of famine in developing countries, large reduction of income for farmers and distributors, high prices for consumers and risk of exposure to mycotoxin, poison produced by fungi.
Announcer Two: Famine in Somalia.
I spent 20 years in interviews with African farmers who were on the verge of famine.
Are we going to start looking at what happens when your information source is turned off, as a famine?
When I was 15 years old, I went from being what I think was a strapping young athlete, over four months, slowly wasting away until I was basically a famine victim with an unquenchable thirst.
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Today, famine has been banished to the most remote and war-ravaged regions.
Because despair, civil war, hunger and famine, although they're part and parcel of our African reality, they are not the only reality.
A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s.
Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs and tree bark.
I can't reveal many details about how I left North Korea, but I only can say that during the ugly years of the famine, I was sent to China to live with distant relatives.
But then the great famine began in 1994.
The great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was awarded the Nobel prize for demonstrating that famine is not so much about the availability of food supply, but rather the ability to acquire or entitle oneself to that food through the market.
If that weight loss had been due to a long famine, that would be a sensible response.
Famine had hit my country of Zimbabwe, and we just didn't have enough to eat.
Two years later, famine hit my country for the second time.
Seeds are energy-rich so there's a lot of food calories, you can store it in times of plenty for times of famine, but there's a downside.
Our ancestors were very busy surviving poverty, drought, famine, riot, disease and civil war.
You can see the great Chinese famine.
And if I were to convince you in this talk that we were likely to suffer a global famine, either because of climate change or some other catastrophe, and that your grandchildren, or their grandchildren, are very likely to live like this, you wouldn't think, "Interesting.
Famine isn't fun.
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