Sentence examples for severe famines from inspiring English sources

This effort has limited severe famines to a few areas of the world despite rapid population growth, but it has not eliminated widespread malnutrition.

Partly in response to severe famines in the southern Sahara in the early 1970s, the 1974 World Food Conference adopted a resolution that established IFAD in November 1977.

The 30-year drought must have led to severe famines, and the c.556 El Nino flood would have destroyed irrigation systems, thus making the food supply situation even more precarious.

As a result, famines can be divided into three: minor famines causing hunger, severe famines causing destitution, and catastrophic famines resulting in mass deaths (De Waal 1989 cited in Devereux 2000).

In 1984 1985, severe famines in Sudan and Ethiopia prompted the international community to put in place Early Warning Systems (EWS) to anticipate and avert future food crises.

The Butajira area with its location in the central highlands of Ethiopia has not come into focus as a location for the severe famines reported from the northern and eastern part of the country (8).

In the past it had suffered from severe famine.

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.

One example he gave was the "Dutch Hunger Winter," a severe famine in the Netherlands in 1944-45.

During the early 1890s, Anguillans endured much suffering when prolonged droughts led to severe famine.