And tsarist Russia and colonial Britain have been replaced by the United States, post-Soviet Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan.The United States, eager to satisfy its growing energy hunger and ease its dependence on Middle East oil, has been eyeing the region with growing interest since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
South Sudan's hunger crisis has eased after a "green harvest", but about 1.5 million people are still in desperate need of food aid, experts say.
Stephanie Gonzalez, 22, discovered her "family" as she calls it, at the Student Outreach and Retention Center, where she was able to find friends, leadership opportunities and food — peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that eased hunger pains since she could not afford a campus meal plan.
Fighting intensifies the stand-off, making negotiations more difficult, even if officials on both sides want them; the hunger strike may have eased these tensions.
Scientists are developing drought-tolerant corn, something that could ease hunger across Tanzania and sub-Saharan Africa.
Blended flour can be baked into cakes and sweetened with bananas or molasses.Many of the things that would ease hunger are worth doing anyway.
Before asking us to stop this painful hunger strike, please ease the pain of all Hong Kong people from [their] illiberal and repressed lives".
Cutting them further would do more to ease hunger in poor countries than any foreign aid.Fruit of the gloomDefenders of the CAP and other rich-country farm policies cannot have it both ways.
The word kaiseki comes from the Japanese words for "stone" and "bosom," referring to Zen Buddhist monks' practice of carrying a heated stone within their robes in order to ease hunger when fasting.
In the local school, the children would enjoy a full free meal to ease hunger and sharpen concentration; the adults would learn how to bore wells and harvest water.
