"All community members are opposed to the dam and irrigated plantations, as it will deprive them of their livelihoods and lead to increased famine, conflict and death.
Human rights abuses may lead to increased famine, rising numbers of refugees and internally displaced people, and — in some regions — make it easier for terrorist and extremist groups to recruit.
And the chaos of climate change will create resource wars, mass refugee populations, famine, increased disasters from firestorms to heatwaves to floods to desertification.
Neither, indeed, were things on that account any better with the besieged, for famine increased upon them, and despondency with not hearing anything of Camillus, it being impossible to send any one to him, the city was so guarded by the barbarians.
The dry season usually lasts from April to November but is regularly extended until mid- to late December by absent rainfall events leading to an increased risk of famine (Wüstefeld 2004).
The current study provides further evidence that both fetal and infant exposure to severe famine increased the clustering of the metabolic risk factors that predispose a person to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
One current study provided further evidence that both fetal and infant exposure to severe famine increased the clustering of the metabolic risk factors that predispose a person to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease [ 31].
The Dutch famine studies have clearly illustrated the relation between altered fetal growth induced by prenatal exposure to famine and increased risk of obesity and impaired glucose tolerance later in life [1], [2].
There was some indirect evidence that the individual famine scores were accurate: the proportion of severely famine-exposed women increased with the degree of residential urbanisation during the famine, reflecting differences in severity of the famine between rural and urban areas (Burger et al, 1948).
Populations on coasts, in Bangladesh, for example, face the prospect of devastating flooding, while those who live at the edge of spreading deserts could suffer famine and increased disease.
Then, we will be facing increased drought, flood, and famine.
