Sentence examples for experienced famine from inspiring English sources

You now have the sugar and fat that fended off starvation for your deep ancestors who often experienced famine.

A generation ago, many people still experienced famine, starvation and poverty.

When the land experienced famine, he removed to the Philistine land of Gerar where his father once lived.

As late as the 1690s, Scotland experienced famine, which reduced the population of parts of the country by at least 20 per cent.

Food supplies were precarious; production dropped in most areas of Europe, but not as much as during World War I. Greece experienced famine in the first year of occupation and the Netherlands in the last year of the war.

Earlier this year parts of South Sudan experienced famine and while conditions have eased, some 4.8 million people across the country are experiencing severe food insecurity - 1.4 million more than at the same time last year.

Four other areas in southern Somalia – two of them entire regions – are also experiencing famine conditions, the UN says.

Although famine conditions have eased since aid agencies increased their activities in Somalia, four million people still need food aid, with 250,000 experiencing famine.

The government has officially named Soroti as one of 17 districts in the north and east of Uganda now experiencing famine.

Uganda is experiencing famine and acute food shortages and the most vulnerable households are those headed by women, children or the elderly.

Epigenetic markers may likewise hinder normal development: the offspring of parents who experience famine are at heightened risk for developing schizophrenia, some research suggests — perhaps because of the chemical signatures on the genes that parents pass on.