Sentences with phrase «of widespread starvation»

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Widespread starvation has been temporarily delayed by the «Green Revolution» — the introduction of miracle grains that multiply yields several times over.

«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

Younger artists were saved from starvation by Roosevelt's ambitious social programme and widespread commissioning of public art.

In 1815 a 800 Mt explosion ejected 160 km3 of minerals into the the atmosphere and this caused widespread starvation in the Southern Hemisphere due to crop failures.

Huge numbers of people could die from starvation if a decrease in precipitation limits crop growth and from disease if coastal flooding leads to widespread water - borne illness.