Where there was once just famine there is now a feast of coverage and analysis almost to the point of saturation.
Starting with the floods and famine in 1995, conditions in North Korea, and particularly in his hometown in the rural north, had deteriorated to the point of desperation.
This caused the country to slide to the brink of famine.
According to his seminal 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene," Richard Dawkins postulates that when we look at human history--the wars and famines, inventions, glories and failures--from the point of view of individual humans, we are totally missing the point.
Women were classified to their degree of famine experience on an individual basis, leading to a three-point famine score ('absent', 'moderate', or 'severe' exposure) that enabled dose-response evaluation [ 14].
Famines are political, from the Irish potato famine to the Bengal famine of 1943 to Ethiopia in the 1980s.
Forced to seek new sources of food, some of the people migrated to the shore in search of "famine food". At Pinnacle Point, the discovery team reported, they feasted on a variety of marine life, brown mussels, giant periwinkles and whelks.
But I can't take a sly, disgusting reference to the Great Famine of 1845-1852, sometimes known as the potato famine.
The campaign was timed to begin this month because it is the seventieth anniversary of the high point of an artificial famine engineered by Stalin's regime which, by some accounts, cost more than 10 million lives.
What led you to the subject of the famine?
