The phrase "devastating famines" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe widespread and severe shortages of food that result in widespread suffering and loss of life. Example: The country was hit by a series of devastating famines that left millions of people without access to food and water.
Devastating famines and brutal wars fought over dwindling resources?
Fourteenth-century Europe, for example, experienced devastating famines, waves of pillaging mercenaries, peasant revolts, religious turmoil and a plague that wiped out as much as half the population in four years.
They will never end devastating famines and food aid dependence if they do not also make it a priority to improve governance, eradicate corruption and end conflict in Somalia and elsewhere in the region.
An extended drought from 1970 to 1985 killed 1.2 million people in one of the most devastating famines ever recorded in Africa.
Lee defected from the North in 1995 following a devastating famine believed to have killed nearly a million North Koreans.
Even in China, which has seen devastating famine within living memory, one adult in four is overweight or obese, with higher rates among city-dwellers.
Tourist attractions include a full-scale replica of the Dunbrody Ship, now a museum commemorating the passengers who sailed on her from New Ross to escape devastating famine and start a new life in the States in the mid-19th century.
Yemen "is one step away" from devastating famine, UN aid chief warns.
Unfortunately, the devastating famine spreading across East Africa may be the next crisis that can no longer be ignored.
With herding, farming, and hunting devastated, famine claimed an estimated one-third of the population of Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Tanzania.
AS THE devastating Indian famine of 1877-79 drew to a close, India's British rulers worried that their relief efforts might have gone too far.
