In the past it had suffered from severe famine.
During the early 1890s, Anguillans endured much suffering when prolonged droughts led to severe famine.
One example he gave was the "Dutch Hunger Winter," a severe famine in the Netherlands in 1944-45.
After a severe famine in 2005, Malawi rejected IMF and World Bank prescriptions and subsidised fertiliser for poor farmers.
Accompanied Terence Cardinal Cooke to Africa to visit the Sahel Desert in Africa during a severe famine.
The country's refugee crisis started in the 1990s when it experienced a severe famine, killing around three million people.
The dream's interpretation that God gave to Joseph was a forecast of a climate crisis – seven years of plenty to be followed by seven years of severe famine.
During the severe famine of 440 439, he bought up a large store of grain and sold it at a low price to the people of Rome.
Since 2003, east Africa has had the eight warmest years on record which is no doubt contributing to the severe famine that now afflicts 13 million people in the Horn of Africa.
The African historian Megan Vaughan, for example, found vital evidence of the way different people survived severe famine in Malawi in the 1940s in women's agricultural and food preparation songs.
But severe famine in the early 1970's and a longstanding political rivalry with his cousin, Mohammad Doud Khan, led to his overthrow while he vacationed in Italy in 1973.
