Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand.

The observations of the Famine Commission of 1880 support the notion that food distribution is more to blame for famines than food scarcity.

We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.

Scarcity was self limiting If you could not grow or catch your own food, you died (or moved).

There is a scarcity of employment opportunity in the town, and the food supply in the camp is reportedly inadequate.

Images of Scarcity

These droughts triple the number of people exposed to severe water scarcity at least once in every generation, leading to major food and health crises.

The repeated appeals of the Security Council and the reports of the World Food Programme showed that aid was not sufficient and that there were scarcity of basic foodstuffs.

Scarcity in an Age of Plenty

Women also suffer serious threats to their health as a result of scarcity of food supplies and economic resources, lack of access to land, and disruption of traditional support systems.

Each region, increasingly, must find its own path to economic development, energy and food security, and effective infrastructure, and must do so in a world threatened by climate change and resource scarcity.

Humanity s only hope is that the vicious circle of extremism can be replaced by a shared global understanding of the massive challenges of climate change, food supplies, sustainable energy, water scarcity, and poverty.

Third, we are entering an era of resource scarcity.

In a world of scarcity, more always seemed better.

It was, and is, a superb system for overcoming scarcity.

Most of the economic models are built around scarcity and growth.

During the housing bubble, prices signaled a severe scarcity of houses.

And, because they rely on seawater, they cause no freshwater scarcity.

NEW YORK Many conflicts are caused or inflamed by water scarcity.

Genetics The thrifty gene hypothesis (also called the famine hypothesis) states that in some populations the body would be more efficient at retaining fat in times of plenty, thereby endowing greater resistance to starvation in times of food scarcity.

Blurring that distinction thereby disregarding the problem of scarcity is no solution.

High prices send a real message about scarcity in a globalizing world.

In San'a itself, the scarcity of corn caused a rebellion in 1772.

Poverty among indigenous populations certainly relates to scarcity of material and economic resources.

Second, water scarcity is seldom absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.

But population density and water scarcity will certainly be inhibiting factors in their exploitation.

One specific result was water scarcity, with once abundant sources of water drying up.

As a result, new infrastructure would only mitigate the impact of scarcity on richer countries.

The population density is very low due to the mountainous terrain and scarcity of water.

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

By 2100, one billion to three billion people worldwide are expected to suffer from water scarcity.

But addressing scarcity will inevitably imply revising agricultural practices and policies worldwide to ensure their sustainability.

These challenges petroleum scarcity, growing instability in the Middle East, and climate change require clear thinking.

However, water scarcity is already a critical constraint to farming in many parts of the world.

The report defined physical water scarcity, as being where there are insufficient water resources to meet the demands of the population, and economic water scarcity as where water requirements are not satisfied because of a lack of investment in water or human capacity.

When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling scarcity.

And they will be crucial to forging new cooperative approaches to climate change, water scarcity, and the like.

Water scarcity is hitting virtually every major economic center, from North America to Europe, Africa, India, and China.

We must see environmental problems and energy scarcity for what they are threats to mankind as a whole.

Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources.

We seized Pharaoh 's people with years of drought and scarcity of fruit so that they might remember .

We seized Pharaoh 's people with years of drought and scarcity of fruit so that they might remember .

Unfortunately, this is an area where data scarcity was identified at national as well as at international level.

There is West Indian Chinese food, there's Jamaican Chinese food, there is Middle Eastern Chinese food, there's Mauritian Chinese food.

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.