The great famine of the 1590s began the period of famine and decline in the 17th century.

During the Great Famine of 1695 97 some 70,000 people perished almost 20 of the population.

Perhaps the worst famine since 1600, the great famine in Finland in 1696, killed one third of the population.

(Mike Davis, Great Leap ForwardThe largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958 61 Great Leap Forward famine in China.

Famine.

Around 1.5 million people, or 20 25 of Persia's population, died as a result of the Great Persian Famine of 1870 1871.

The Pirates of Starvation

There was the Great Leap Forward, which led to mass starvation and perhaps as many as 38 million deaths.

The Great Irish Famine, which began in the 1840s, caused the deaths of one million Irish people, and caused over a million to emigrate.

Banishing Starvation

We have war, recession, hunger, poverty, starvation, illness.

Out of the way, blubberhead. The famine is on.

The famine got them.

My speciality! Starvation sauce.

Then our weapon is starvation.

An example of a famine created by human rights abuses is the 1998 Sudan famine.

Millions face starvation.

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that famine has driven you off course!

The world population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.

The Horn of Africa s Last Famine?

Look at the famine going on right now.

But it didn't need to be a famine.

The specter of mass starvation loomed.

In 1946, as a result of a severe drought and excessive delivery quota obligations and requisitions imposed by the Soviet government, the southwestern part of the USSR suffered from a major famine.

Famine and Hope in the Horn of Africa

It was the middle of that awful famine.

There was a generalized famine at the time.

Global famine was inevitable.

It was famine that made me a slave!

Famine had been relatively rare during the 16th century.

The severity of the famine varied from region to region.

The battle against famine and poverty must still be waged.

But then the great famine began in 1994.

At least we could live well through the famine!

And if we don't, they'll starve, sure as

There's War, Famine, Death, Pestilence and Miss Timberlake.

A few of the great famines of the late 20th century were the Biafran famine in the 1960s, the Khmer Rouge caused famine in Cambodia in the 1970s, the North Korean famine of the 1990s and the Ethiopian famine of 1984 85.

He also requested and received food aid to avoid famine.

Right now on the Horn of Africa, we've been through this before.

5 sons dided in the years of flood and famine

Other causes of death

Other notable famines include the Great Famine of 1876 78, in which 6.1 million to 10.3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 1900, in which 1.25 to 10 million people died.

Starvation killed 20,000 people in the city that year.

A new goal on the elimination of famine was also adopted.