"Widespread famine" refers to a situation where hunger and scarcity of food affect a large number of people across a wide area. It means that many people don't have enough to eat, which can lead to malnutrition and even starvation.
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The Saudi regime is heavily involved in the current conflict in Yemen that is blamed for causing
widespread famine in that country.
He forecasts a rapid rise in temperatures within 30 years which will
cause widespread famine, but he said Ireland, along with New Zealand, will be spared the worst effects because of its maritime climate, relatively high latitude and under - population.
The recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s had disastrous consequences for agriculture, livestock and the environment in the area, with
widespread famine as a result.
But wherever regular elections and a free press force rulers to listen to their people, governments have always performed the relatively easy task of
preventing widespread famine.
Around 1300 C.E., on the other hand, a cold snap combined with wetter summers coincides
with widespread famines and plague that wiped out nearly half of Europe's population by 1347.
The center honors the 1970 Peace Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, a renowned wheat breeder who helped lead the first green revolution in the 1960s and
avert widespread famine in India.
Thomas Malthus was the 18th century demographer and dismal scientist who argued that agricultural output grows only linearly, while population grows geometrically,
suggesting widespread famine when the population outstripped the food supply.
At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and
even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.
The sense of gloom was captured in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich's best - selling book, The Population Bomb, which
predicted widespread famine and mass mortality.
Studies from the 1980s predicted that smoke from a nuclear war would blot out the sun, and the resulting nuclear winter would
produce widespread famine and chaos.
For instance, what is the cumulative likelyhood of a combination of drought and floods causing a
very widespread famine before 2030?
The potential consequences of warming
include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course of a few centuries.»
According to both researchers, the expected rise in CO2 concentrations by 2050 will increase world agricultural production, but to levels that barely will be enough to
prevent widespread famine.
A particularly instructive example is the Sahel region of Africa, which switched from vegetated land that supported cattle to unproductive desert within 5 years beginning about 1965,
causing widespread famine and an international crisis in the region that continues to be a problem today.
The imagery is intense: A sun seemingly stamped from the sky, acid rain leaking into homes, and
widespread famine as the land sank into the...
By 2050, the global population will reach 9.1 billion, at which point food production will need to increase by 70 % to stave off
widespread famine.
God went on to say that he had seen the suffering of the Israelites, Abraham's descendants, who at the time of Joseph had come to Egypt to escape
a widespread famine and had become slaves to the Egyptians and their rulers, known as Pharaohs.
Rather than celebrating the dawn of a new millennium, the Union City residents are suffering from malicious gang wars, terrorists and
widespread famine.
In East Africa, in places like Sudan and Ethiopia, El Niño is already causing severe drought, resulting in
widespread famine.
Periods of very low temperatures throughout history have resulted in mass crop failures and
widespread famines.
The IPCC's exaggerated projections are the root of fears of coming climate disaster (sinking cities, storm - ravaged coastlines,
widespread famine, etc.)-- fears that result in calls to limit our use of fossil fuels used to produce the energy that supports human society and feeds innovation.
With persistent drought in the world's grain baskets already, we're heading for more crop failures, exorbitant food price hikes, food shortages and
widespread famines.
«It was a bad idea,» he says, «that dragged down the nation's productivity and played a role in
widespread famine.»
This world, like those of many of the other scenarios, is stalked by hunger — the global population has dipped below current levels due to
widespread famine.
Deserts will expand, drought will spread, water supplies will evaporate away, rising seas will flood coastal areas and cover island nations,
widespread famine will ensue as farms dry up, and heat waves and tropical diseases will threaten out health.