And that leads to starvation, it leads to uncertainty, it leads to unrest.

At our time in history, these images are out of place.

You pick up the paper, you read about 84 men or 284, or a million men, like in the Chinese famine.

After observing the famine of 1974, he became involved in poverty reduction and established a rural economic program as a research project.

This year, for the first time in 60 years, we commemorated the tragic anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932 1933 in Ukraine.

I can't reveal many details about how I left North Korea, but I only can say that during the ugly years of the famine,

Emphasizing the need to address the crisis bearing in mind the importance of the transition from relief to development, and acknowledging the underlying structural causes for the recurrent famine in Ethiopia,

The bombings were an attempt to eliminate American soldiers on their way to Somalia to take part in the international famine relief effort, Operation Restore Hope.

As observed during earlier meetings, millions of people in Africa continue to bear the brunt of famine, extreme poverty and pandemics, and they survive each day in squalor.

Donors should promote increased use of local and regional commercial markets to meet food needs in famine prone countries and reduce dependence on food aid.

AIDS is also having long term economic effects on agriculture by reducing the available workforce, and is creating new vulnerabilities to famine by overburdening poor households.

Also, visits were arranged for the local population and members of various organizations to sensitize them to the devastating effects of the famine and to the enormous humanitarian tasks that lay ahead in order to alleviate the looming crisis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that unless adaptive measures are taken, climate change is projected to approximately double by the 2050s the percentage of its population at risk of hunger and associated health effects.

Mr. La Yifan (China) said his delegation was distressed by the tragic scenes of famine in Africa and other areas of the world which, at the beginning of the new millennium, were a scar on the conscience of humanity.

We must not remain passive observers of genocide, crimes against humanity or gross and flagrant violations of human rights, as happened in 1932 1933 when Ukrainians experienced the great famine with devastating effects.

Bearing in mind the 2003 appeal for emergency assistance for Ethiopia, launched on 6 December 2002 by the United Nations and the Government of Ethiopia, to respond to the looming famine situation and to prevent the imminent humanitarian crisis,

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rates of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool and Sanaag plateau of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

How, then, can we defend democracy and ensure that, rather than perish, it becomes stronger and more effective in dealing with starvation, unemployment, drug trafficking, the depletion of natural resources, forced migration and the new forms of trade protectionism that undermine development?

Nomads have been victims of famine, violent conflict, and circumstance, accounting for a significant share of the deaths as many as one million caused by 22 years of civil war, and of the 260,000 Somalis who died of starvation in 2010 2012.