Sentence examples for famine crisis from inspiring English sources

Behind the obsessive fitness regime lies a nascent famine crisis.

The World Food Programme says most Yemeni provinces are now classified as only one level below a full famine crisis.

Marcus Samuelsson and his wife, Maya, are throwing a brunch Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at their home in Harlem to benefit the African famine crisis.

Through a series of examples, some experienced personally, she shows that aid not only fuels but helps expand conflict: the camps in Goma, Darfur and the play-out of the induced Ethiopian famine crisis are the prime cases.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The drought-induced famine crisis in Somalia has eased somewhat, United Nations officials said on Friday, with the number of people facing imminent starvation dropping to nearly 250,000 from 750,000 because of rainfall and increased aid deliveries.

Nile Rodgers (C) and Madonna (R) perform at the Live Aid Concert to Raise Funds for the Ethiopian Famine Crisis on July 13 , 1985 at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.

And Standard and Poor's has dropped Italy's credit rating from A+ to A. To read: Mother Jones's explainer on the Horn of Africa famine, a crisis the United Nations has called the worst humanitarian disaster in the world.

Recent examples include the Ebola epidemic, the Philippian tsunami, Hurricane Sandy, the Tibetan earthquake economic and famine refugee crises, and war-caused refugee situations around the world.

Helen Smith, from Aylesbury, added: "I think a lot of it is about not looking at famines or crises, but restructuring economies and the way countries are.

With all this, one would think that developed countries would have devoted greater resources to tackle water insufficiency and deficient sanitation at their source, rather than executing costly reactive rescue missions to deal with the epidemics, famines, refugee crises, and mass exoduses that are their consequences.

Does the famine and food crisis reflect a failure of development?