Perhaps the most depressing aspect of our job is that destitution is largely being caused by entirely avoidable maladministration.
One of the areas most affected was central southern England, where it caused widespread destitution of the landless poor and great depopulation of the countryside.
Most of the homeless people are products of a sad fraction of our society, where destitution is a perfectly plausible career, caused by poverty and unemployment.
Reports from groups working in that country say that plantations carved over recent years into natural forests have caused more conflict and destitution than prosperity.
In some cases these companies have driven "devastating impacts for Cambodian citizens and the environment, including land grabs that have caused mass displacements and destitution among Cambodia's rural poor", Global Witness says.
At this early stage, the university faced its first financial crisis, a situation that was preceded by the destitution of the rector Ramírez in 1949 by political reasons, and caused by the diminishing support of the local government.
The MPs' report follows a short inquiry undertaken amid public concern that sanctions were being imposed inappropriately, causing hardship, destitution and ill-health, and routinely forcing jobseekers to rely on food banks to survive.
The famine condition in our study area, also known as green famine belt (Guyu 2015), could be categorized under the minor and severe categories that are caused by starvation, breakout of human and livestock diseases and deaths, destruction of livelihood bases, household destitution and dissolution of family.
His presentation of the hypocrisy of philanthropy and inhumane treatment of the poor is unblinking – I certainly can't read him without seeing clear parallels to today's world, particularly in the way he makes clear the function of language in distancing those responsible for destitution from the actions which cause it.
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).
