Sentence examples for extreme famine from inspiring English sources

Except in times of extreme famine, there will be no deliveries of food, the prime commodity and raison d'tre of pure relief the world over.

In China, a proverb, "Swap child, make food", referred to the practice in periods of extreme famine of swapping a daughter's corpse with that of a neighbour's and boiling it into soup.

Although Ethiopia was going through an extreme famine and an economic slump, they still gave assistance to Mexico, which had helped Ethiopia when they were invaded by Italy in 1935.

During the Dutch siege of Colombo in 1656, the city population endured extreme famine.

Charities realized long ago that featuring a child suffering from extreme famine in Africa plastered across all their communications and underground Tube posters doesn't necessarily lead to any immediate emotional reaction or engagement in a world of saturated media.

They were displaced from their land to create a national park and consequently suffered extreme famine.

Full report [PDF] Country chapter [PDF] Zambia map [PDF] No apparent signs of devastation, conflict or extreme famine in Zambia.

Even under conditions of extreme famine, the value of the standard deviation of the z-score is very close to unity [ 34].

The intensity scale is used to assign population areas within a country to a level, from 0 (food secure conditions) to 5 (extreme famine conditions).

Until his final two years, Mutharika had actually engineered an agriculture-led boom in Malawi, one that pointed a way for Africa to overcome its chronic hunger, food insecurity, and periodic extreme famines.

Historical epidemics often followed war, climate extremes, famine, and social upheaval.