Sentence examples for catastrophic famines from inspiring English sources

In the nineteen-sixties, the country experienced several nearly catastrophic famines.

Such a policy would continue energy assistance, food shipments and other aid to a population that has suffered catastrophic famines, while insisting that Pyongyang abide by arms control agreements and allow inspections.

The late 1980's opened an era of disasters, from the disappearance of the Soviet bloc, whose countries were North Korea's main economic partners, to a series of catastrophic famines brought on by crop failures, droughts and flooding.

As a result, famines can be divided into three: minor famines causing hunger, severe famines causing destitution, and catastrophic famines resulting in mass deaths (De Waal 1989 cited in Devereux 2000).

In fact, a series of catastrophic famines that killed more than 30 million people in India and China in the late 19th century caused researchers to first take note of the phenomenon we now call El Niño.

When a catastrophic famine beset North Korea in the mid-nineties, the propagandist's misgivings about his country's leadership deepened.

More than four million people, a third of its population, face serious food shortages and tens of thousands are on the cusp of catastrophic famine.

Aid agencies are now warning that an exodus of Muslim traders and cattle-herders could lead to catastrophic famine and economic collapse.

We could bioengineer our main food sources — rice, wheat and corn — in such a way that a single disease could bring about catastrophic famine.

The turning point in the Neapolitan reform movement came with a catastrophic famine in 1764, which urgently called into question the effectiveness of old-regime structures.

Using as a pretext the catastrophic famine of the previous year (see below), he ordered the church to surrender its consecrated vessels, essential for services, to be sold for famine relief.