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For example, human-caused warming of the Indian Ocean probably played a role in the 2011 severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which triggered famine, conflict, and hunger, affecting millions of impoverished people.
But, while terror and famine have been absent, many of the oppressive tactics of the past have been revived under Vladimir Putin’s misrule, now in its 14th year.
It was also clear by the end of 2015 that a major collapse was coming – and even that a famine was in the making.
Famine and Hope in the Horn of AfricaNAIROBI – Yet again, famine stalks the Horn of Africa.
A massive drought this year was not exactly predictable, but the risk of famine was easily foreseeable.
This crisis absorbed almost all of the European Union’s political attention this summer, even as famine in Africa has worsened.
Second, fertility rates and population growth in the Horn of Africa continue to be extremely high, even as children perish in the famine.
Six countries in the region with large dryland zones – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, and South Sudan – have joined together in a Drylands Initiative to use best practices and cutting-edge technologies to support their pastoralist communities’ effort to escape the scourges of extreme poverty and famine.
Following the devastating famine of 1932-1933, 2-3 million Russians repopulated deserted farming areas in southern and eastern Ukraine, contributing to ethno-linguistic divisions that endure to this day.
Now those deaths are themselves heavily outnumbered by the toll of the widespread famine engulfing Yemen.
The famine is also the outcome of Saudi actions: blockades, import restrictions, and other measures, including withholding the salaries of about a million civil servants.
The famine, Lowcock said, would be “much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.”
As population rises, billions of people crowd into Earth’s vulnerable areas – near coastlines battered by storms and rising sea levels, on mountainsides susceptible to landslides and earthquakes, or in water-stressed regions plagued by drought, famine, and disease.
In his 2013 book, The Great Escape, Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton shows how progress in reducing aggregate privation, famine, and premature death over the past 250 years has left many social groups behind.
After achieving dramatic gains against hunger and famine, we run the risk of backsliding, owing to poorly considered choices.
The place would explode if the truth came out about what actually happened in villages during land reform and the various stages of collectivization during and after the revolution; or about who persecuted whom during the "anti-rightist campaign" in 1957; or about how many millions died during the great famine induced by the disastrous policies of the "great leap forward" a few years later; or who denounced whom in the universities and residence committees during the "cultural revolution" of the late sixties.
In this process of cascading failures, overall financial conditions quickly flip from feast to famine.
The population of locusts ballooned, contributing to a famine that claimed around 30 million lives.
Achieving these goals would not only improve the lives of billions of people, but would also forestall violent conflicts that are stoked by poverty, famine, and struggles over scarce resources.
The UN appeal for South Sudan, which faces famine after fighting prevented farmers from planting crops, has reached only half of its funding target.
But the effects of that famine – including its toll of more than 30 million deaths – were not quantified until long after the fact.
That was partly because government officials were afraid to bring whatever information they had to the attention of Mao Zedong, whose Great Leap Forward policy had played a role in causing the famine.
Is air pollution today’s great famine?
The historian Alex von Tunzelmann accused Ferguson of leaving out all of imperialism’s nasty bits: the Black War in Australia, the German genocide in Namibia, the Belgian exterminations in the Congo, the Amritsar Massacre, the Bengal Famine, the Irish potato famine, and much else.
These effects would persist for a decade, causing a global famine affecting more than one billion people.
To make matters worse, Chad is in the Sahel region, which has suffered acute famine over the last few years, and declining oil prices have hit the regional economic outlook.
The R&D Road to DevelopmentCOPENHAGEN – When famine strikes, governments and international donors step in with life-saving aid.
But, in the 1840’s, mass immigration, fueled by the Irish potato famine, altered the state’s demographic balance, enabling populists to gain control of the legislature.
Nor is it likely that much economic expansion will result from competition between multinational food distributors and producers in countries where famine still stalks the land.
And in the Horn of Africa, widespread famine has served as a horrific reminder of the potentially deadly effects of drought and deficient water-management systems.
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