Sentence examples for recurring famines from inspiring English sources

Modest population growth might occur for a time in these circumstances, but recurring famines, epidemics, and wars kept long-term growth close to zero.

But a big factor is the failure of food markets in poor countries.Take Ethiopia, notorious for its recurring famines, with 7m people still on food aid.

During the long reign of al-Mustanṣir (reigned 1036 94) factional strife brought Egypt into a vicious circle of anarchy and tyranny, made worse by recurring famine and plague.

In 1816 Ireland suffered one of the worst of its recurring potato famines: typhus fever broke out, infecting 80,000 and killing 44,000.

It's feared they will bring with them Mizo's worst recurring nightmare: famine.

Published today in Science Advances is an article by former Lamont Postdoctoral Research Scientist Jessica Tierney (now at the University of Arizona), Peter deMenocal, and Caroline Ummenhofer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa, a region that has experienced three decades of recurring droughts and famines.

The city, which was once marked by the recurring droughts and famines is now an agriculturally developed city due to the establishment of Haryana Agricultural University.

While acknowledging the need for immediate emergency aid, they emphasised the need for actions and policies to prevent famine from recurring.

Nearly every child in the country requires assistance amid a serious threat of famine and recurring disease outbreaks, including diphtheria, cholera and acute watery diarrhea.

In a book that recurs regularly to famines caused by western imperialism, there is no discussion of the politically engineered famine that cost millions of lives in the Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Droughts and famines recurred.