The result was extensive famine among the Igbos, regarded as one of the great nutritional disasters of modern times [28].
But their optimism was dealt a devastating blow when they came face to face with the reality of restarting life in a country reeling from nearly three decades of war, extensive displacement, anarchy, drought, famine and destruction.
Aleppines have prevailed over earthquakes, famine, plague, and an extensive history of imperial invasion from the Babylonians to the Ottomans and colonial French.
A rise in sea level would submerge large areas of land and several million people would be affected by famine owing to the loss of extensive areas of agriculture.
In eastern Chad on the border with Darfur, the famine would be greater and the violence no doubt more extensive without the many escorts and patrols of UN peacekeepers.
Or perhaps you recall the extensive media coverage from a couple of decades ago of Ethiopia's tragic famine during the 1980s.
Here Lies Love tells the story of the Philippines' notorious First Lady Imelda Marcos, most famous for her extensive shoe collection at a time when her dictator husband, Ferdinand, presided over unprecedented famine in the country.
The data were continuously collected over a 13-year period (1993 2005), with consistent methods from women who were born over a 31-year timeframe including the national famine of 1959 60, the Cultural Revolution of 1966 76, and the following 10-year period of extensive economic reform.
The sprawling Kumsusan Palace, its mausoleum lined with expensive marble, is thought to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, factoring in extensive renovations and an expansion during the 1990s, when tens of thousands of North Koreans died of famine.
