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Sarajevo, the capital, suffered three years of sniping, shelling, and starvation tactics that killed thousands of Bosnian Muslims.
In the 1950’s, Asia conjured up images of poverty and starvation.
When the rains fail, the grasses shrivel, the livestock die, and communities face starvation.
Korea Emerges from CrisisSEOUL: Last year saw the worst of times in South Korea since the end of the Korean War, with Asia's crisis bringing a devastating 33.8% drop in per capita GDP, from $10,307 to $6,823 and mass starvation in North Korea threatening stability on the peninsula.
Historians tell us that the Luddites were victims of a temporary conjuncture of rising prices and falling wages that threatened them with starvation in a society with minimal welfare provision.
But it would also abolish the risk of starvation and malnutrition in a land where too many have gone hungry for too long.
Indeed, by taking the right actions now, we can eradicate starvation.
I vividly recall a time in my life when many people feared that starvation would soon run rampant, gaps between the rich and poor would grow ever wider, and everything would eventually come crashing down.
The children died over the past decade from malnutrition and starvation, treatable infections, pneumonia, “accidents,” and neglect.
It could also be used to increase agricultural productivity, saving 200 million from starvation in the long run, while ameliorating natural disasters through early-warning systems.
Murder in the ranks, starvation and suicides in distant army bases, run-away conscripts, even the spectre of soldiers selling out their fellow soldiers to Chechyn kidnappers, have become common in today's Russian military, which now sullenly sees itself as disgraced.
In the first half of the last century, it was widely believed that failing to conquer agricultural space would condemn countries to starvation.
There was the Great Leap Forward, which led to mass starvation and perhaps as many as 38 million deaths.
They were either targeted for execution in the killing fields as bourgeois intellectual enemies of the state, or perished, as more than a million did, from starvation and disease, following forced displacement to rural labor camps.
In the mid-twentieth century, for example, a boom in phosphate mining transformed the Micronesian island state of Nauru from a land of food shortages and starvation to the world’s leader in obesity and type-2 diabetes.
Then again, obesity is sometimes viewed as a genetically predetermined “normal” predisposition, understood in terms of an evolutionary biological drive to accumulate body fat in order to prevent starvation in times of famine.
The older we become, the fatter we get, no matter what we eat – though this seems to conflict with the ob-gen argument that we need to get fat to avoid starvation.
Such disasters not only cause death by drowning or starvation, but also damage crops and make them vulnerable to infection and infestations by pests and choking weeds, thereby contributing to food shortages and malnutrition.
Over 20 million died of starvation in Mao’s Great Leap Forward; untold millions died under Lenin, Stalin and Hitler;Pol Pot murdered two million Cambodians.
Fortunately, the Pharaoh had empowered his technocratic official (Joseph) to save grain in the seven years of plenty, building up sufficient stockpiles to save the Egyptian people from starvation during the bad years.
They face death not only from starvation and exposure, but also from genocidal slaughter by the rapidly advancing IS forces, who regard the Yazidis as apostates and have already perpetrated atrocities unrivaled in their savagery.
There will be a rise in sea levels, more malaria, starvation, and poverty.
As a result, Malthus’s concerns about mass starvation have failed to materialize in any peaceful capitalist economy.
For example, in subsistence rural areas, a bad harvest may lead to starvation before the next year’s crop is in.
Unfortunately, according to Joanna Syroka of the World Bank’s Commodity Risk Management Group, official foreign aid and private charity tends to arrive too late, often after starvation has actually begun, and long after the families have taken extreme measures, consuming their capital to survive.
The expulsion of the aid agencies has put over a million Darfuris at risk of epidemics and starvation.
The gap between rich and poor grows deeper, and while people die of starvation in some parts of the world, other places see waste as a type of social obligation.
Media worldwide have been reporting on Venezuela, documenting truly horrible situations, with images of starvation, hopelessness, and rage.
Additional restraints on trade are a serious threat to net-food-importing countries, where governments worry that such measures could lead to starvation.
The skyrocketing cost of food has resulted in more starvation among the poor, reduced purchasing power among the non-poor, and food riots in more than 30 countries.
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