"Famine is something that can be portrayed in the media effectively," he told me, "whereas chronic malnutrition — well, it's very difficult to portray that, isn't it?" Saxena added that the Indian state was capable when coping with emergencies but had trouble handling challenges that were endemic — a view I heard expressed by many experts and activists.
Famine conditions are something people in Syria, Central African Republic, South Sudan and other countries are facing as we speak.
If there is any good news, it is that worries about possible famine in Pakistan, something I had heard expressed by some humanitarians responding to the flooding, have not materialized.
That "something" was a famine -- probably history's largest.
Hamas, in turn, was governing a besieged and slowly starving population that was rapidly heading from crisis into something close to famine.
We are presently distracted from something as important as famine on a historically unprecedented scale & have done almost nothing about it.
"If there was a disaster, if something like the potato famine of livestock ever hit, these frozen embryos would be made available, and in one generation we would be back in business".
According to this assumption, the same number of wolves die each year but, instead of dying from something like old age, famine, disease, or injury, they are killed by people.
"That famine still exists is a terrible thing, something that keeps the world from being a more wonderful place than it is.
In Britain, in 1997, Mr. Blair described the potato famine in Ireland in the late 1840s as "something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today," but suffering pain is not the same thing as making a formal apology.
