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Oh yeah, there's a subplot about an evil world conspiracy and famine, or something.
Why not grant the wishes of kids to stop famine?
The movie segues from decade to decade from the 10's to the 80's with amazing newsreel footage trailing Soviet history from the revolution to war famine and the titanic technological achievements of an empire (terrific visuals here!
By doing this they will change the world forever- Gryll and Jed's music will never be made leaving a world of war, famine, and hatred, and more annoyingly, bland boy/girl group pop music.
Through the passing years, they raise a family and watch their simple household weather both feast and famine.
Throw in an astonishingly illiterate script ("Famine's hand will stalk the land" -- how's that for a mixed metaphor?),
The movie is about a farmer Shambhu (Balraj Sahni), who has been hit badly by a famine in Bengal.
It was twenty years ago today ... well not quite but it was twenty years ago this month that the world experienced Live Aid that raised tens of millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa and Bob Geldof was the reincarnation of Jesus .
As the planet whirls toward the devastation of floods and earthquakes, famine, disease and war, I will remember the horrible onslaught this movie defacated into my memories and nightmares.
In Yemen, with war and famine raging, more than two million children between the ages of six and nine are out of school.
This year was marked by the worst global food crisis since World War II, with South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, and Nigeria either experiencing famine or teetering on the brink.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where three of the four countries on the verge of famine are located, crop yields have long lagged behind the rest of the world, owing to poor farm inputs, such as low-quality seeds and fertilizer.
Countries on the continent that have invested heavily in agricultural development and smallholder farmers have been successful at avoiding famine.
And yet Ethiopia did not experience famine last year.
As the noted British author and Africa researcher Alex de Waal has noted, “Politics creates famine, and politics can stop it.”
Blockchain has been heralded as a potential panacea for everything from poverty and famine to cancer.
The United Nations estimates that Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, and South Sudan will need a combined $6.3 billion this year to avoid widespread famine.
The sudden discontinuation of the supply of petroleum and natural resources from Russia in the early 1990’s, the failure of the centrally-planned economy, and the subsequent massive famine in the mid-1990’s left North Korea’s leaders no alternative but to tolerate informal market activities.
The humanitarian emergency in northeast Nigeria is the country’s most serious since the Biafra famine in the 1960s.
That is perhaps an easy point to recognize for this author, the Catholic grandson of Irish potato famine emigrants who, nevertheless, became a British minister and Britain’s last colonial governor.
Civil war, famine, disease, the legacy of colonialism-all have been advanced as plausible reasons for the continent's grinding poverty and economic backwardness.
She will grow up in a region beset by poverty, disease, war or famine.
Today’s young soldiers represent the so-called Jangmadang (“black market”) generation that came of age under the marketization process that followed the massive famine in the mid-1990s.
From 1957 to 1976, from the beginning of Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” which led to a mass famine that killed tens of millions of people, to the end of the “Cultural Revolution” which left Chinese society divided and traumatized due to its wanton cruelty and the destruction of cultural goods, China endured two hideous decades.
Vietnam recalls the dark days of occupation by Japan during World War II, when famine killed up to two million Vietnamese.
His government cannot even feed its own people, who are regularly devastated by famine.
We should celebrate the progress we have made against disease, famine, and poverty.
The consequences are harrowing: drought and famine, loss of livelihood, the spread of water-borne diseases, forced migrations, and even open conflict.
Since then, the world has seen countless acts of violence, terrorism, famine, and environmental degradation.
Even so, once the political causes of famine and malnutrition in developing countries are resolved, the use of modern biotechnology in agriculture and food production could potentially make an immense contribution to social welfare and economic advancement.
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