The phrase 'avert famine' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing the steps necessary to prevent a famine from occurring. For example: "If we have forewarning of a drought, we must take steps to avert famine by improving access to water and food in the affected area."
Donors from 41 countries who met in Oslo on Tuesday night pledged about half of the $1.26bn still needed to avert famine in South Sudan.
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made last week predicted a bumper grain harvest of three million tons next April, but United Nations experts say the country needs to import up to 1.5 million tons of grain to avert famine.
Barry Bearak (NYT) NORTH KOREA: NERVOUS ABOUT FOREIGN AID -- United Nations agencies are urging donors to send food to North Korea to avert famine, but such aid could prove dangerous, an official newspaper warned.
The UN food agency has said there is only a "small window of opportunity" to avert famine, and appealed for relief agencies – who have been subjected to armed attacks and looting – to be allowed unfettered access.
Consider just a few recent news items: Americans are balking at extending unemployment benefits, and even disaster relief was in doubt for a time last week in another of Washington's budget skirmishes; Europeans are cutting payments to pensioners; and "there's no mood for intervention" to avert famine in Somalia, according to one diplomat.
The first articulation of the providential theory, Genesis 50 20, shows that Joseph's envious brothers had inadvertently performed God's will when they sold him into slavery, since he rose to high office in Egypt, managed the food supply so as to avert famine, and so had food to give his brothers.
"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy," he wrote, because democratic governments "have to win elections and face public criticism, and have strong incentive to undertake measures to avert famines and other catastrophes".
"It's not that simple to say when we averted famine, but we have," said Abby Spring, of the aid program.
In widespread disaster situations, timing of interventions will have substantial impact on averting famine conditions as well as the ability of vulnerable households to withstand future shocks.
Borlaug and Indian geneticist M.S. Swaminathan fostered the "Green Revolution" which made India self-sufficient in food production and averted famine.
Experts on averting famine Averting Famine, Acting Early brings leading thinkers together in a studio Debate and through written commentaries, asking whether famine and nutrition crises are preventable, if so, how, and who, if anyone, is responsible.
