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We comment on the news, we post our views on social media, we march, we protest ... But who among us is working on solutions, big solutions to big issues, like gun violence, mistreatment of workers, flood, famine, drought?
The same preparation that was supposed to protect us from hunger and famine is going to cause obesity, cardiovascular problems and metabolic disease.
To cope with the influx of refugees who are fleeing Somalia, where there is famine and conflict, the UN has built this area gridded out at left called the LFO extension to house more and more refugees who are arriving and occupying these white dots, which are actually tents which will slowly fill up the area over time.
It seemed that for our neighbors and friends, Africa was either this exotic place, this imaginary land that probably exists only in their imagination, or the place of horror, famine.
There is a famine there, a man-made famine.
That's a man-made famine, so not a natural famine, an entirely man-made famine that the UN has warned could be the worst famine the world has seen in a hundred years.
Across cultures and time periods, there's evidence of survival cannibalism, when people living through a famine, siege or ill-fated expedition had to either eat the bodies of the dead or starve to death themselves.
While these policies produced high-yield crops that staved off famine, they also forced people from lower castes off their land and caused widespread environmental damage.
A plant that was supposed to end famine created one of the most tragic ones.
Instead of famine, hidden until it is too late, we detect it, and we respond.
It was the middle of that awful famine.
Famine mostly is a rural event now.
In 2001 we experienced an awful famine.
And you get a far lower risk of famine, because you actually had two crops to fall back on, not one.
Who cannot be touched by compassion when we see the terrible horrors of the results of war, or famine, or earthquakes, or tsunamis?
We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.
Herodotus says that games, particularly dice games, were invented in the kingdom of Lydia, during a time of famine.
Apparently, there was such a severe famine that the king of Lydia decided they had to do something crazy.
And according to Herodotus, they passed 18 years this way, surviving through a famine, by eating on one day, and playing games on the next.
According to Herodotus, after 18 years the famine wasn't getting better, so the king decided they would play one final dice game.
And geologists have found evidence of a global cooling that lasted for nearly 20 years, that could have explained the famine.
Thankfully, when these photos appeared in The Guardian in 1998, they put a lot of focus and attention and, in the end, a lot of money towards the Sudan famine relief efforts.
Elsewhere in Africa there was famine.
I'd witnessed immense suffering in the Islamic world from political oppression, civil war, foreign invasions, poverty, famine.
And it's very difficult to be happy on a planet that's racked with famine and drought.
Most African stories these days, they talk about famine, HIV and AIDS, poverty or war.
Global famine was inevitable.
And if I go down and look at Niger, where there was such a terrible famine [recently], it's like this.
Now, scientists can take this information about the rainfall and the vegetation and use it to understand what areas on Earth are in danger of a famine or a drought and provide that information to aid organizations so they can be prepared with food aid before the hunger becomes severe.
The first film tells the story of a family that has to move form their home because of drought and famine.
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