Sentence examples for substantial famine from inspiring English sources
The most forceful contemporary statement of this instrumental argument is provided by Amartya Sen, who argues, for example, that "no substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent country with a democratic form of government and a relatively free press" (Sen 1999, 152).
About 500,000 displaced people face famine if substantial international aid does not begin to flow by March, said Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador, calling an aid blockade imposed by Sudan "unconscionable and unacceptable".
In widespread disaster situations, timing of interventions will have substantial impact on averting famine conditions as well as the ability of vulnerable households to withstand future shocks.
In this instance, migration rates have increased in part because of the substantial health risks associated with famine.
Famine, severe and prolonged hunger in a substantial proportion of the population of a region or country, resulting in widespread and acute malnutrition and death by starvation and disease.
"Without a further substantial increase in food-aid pledges, we will be risking serious famine and many deaths in these worst-affected African countries," the organization's Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Policy, B. P. Dutia, said.
In the Netherlands Dirx et al (1999) observed no substantial change of breast cancer risk in women who experienced the war famine of 1944 1945.
The fact of the matter is that famines are entirely avoidable, as Sen has argued with substantial empirical evidence.
Much of the documentation of famine has concentrated on its effects on children (3), but there is also evidence of substantial effects of nutritional stress among older Africans (4).
