Sentence examples for consequences of famine from inspiring English sources

The British sociologist Anthony Giddens once described the counterintuitive fact that as a country moves toward prosperity, insulating itself from the harshest consequences of famine and the elements, it becomes "increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk".

The risks of adverse long-term consequences of famine exposure during early life may be further increased in a nutritionally rich environment in later life (12, 13).

Causes and consequences Beyond the question of pastoralism, several panellists pointed out that both the causes and the consequences of famine and food insecurity in the Horn of Africa are multi-faceted.

Malnutrition's global toll is also not mainly a consequence of famines, wars and other catastrophes, as is widely thought; in fact, such events are responsible for only a tiny part of the worldwide malnutrition crisis.

"Tombstone," by the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is the first major Chinese account of the causes and consequences of that famine.

The consequences of the famine and political violence of Mao Zedong's push for full agricultural collectivization and breakneck industrialization live on in the psyches of Chinese people today, according to Zhou Xun, the author of a new book, "The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962".

The consequences of the famine on reproductive health are shown in Fig. 6, for the rural and town population combined.

The epigenetic consequences of prenatal famine and caloric restriction have been evaluated in a cohort of people conceived in the winter 1944-45 during a severe famine at the end of World War II (Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study).

The collapse of the public distribution system, through which the command economy used to apportion goods, including food, was both a cause and consequence of the famine.

As a direct consequence of the famine, Ireland's population of almost 8.4 million in 1844 had fallen to 6.6 million by 1851.

Further studies evidenced that persistent changes in DNA methylation represent a common consequence of prenatal famine exposure and that they can be affected by the sex of the exposed individual and the gestational timing of the exposure [ 161].