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... Policy Approaches 35 Chapter 3 Securing Enough Food to Survive 38 Rediscovering Food Security 38 Forgotten Food; Forgotten Famines 40 Fundamental Knowledge 42 Food Crises and Foreign Aid 45 International Approaches 48 Variables in Food Security 52 Food Reserves 57 Food Security and the Recent Crises 59 In...

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...n little island and these people have to suffer the ravages of epidemics, floods, earthquakes and famines with little or no personal resources. What...

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....................................................... 33 WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES .................................................................... ...y than in the past and safer than childbirth, often has strong antagonists. Famines still come and go but don’t kill enough people to make much of a ... ...ould do if we are really homo sapiens—thinking people.” WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES —“What about the human inflicted catastrophes, commander? I... ... small dent in their population growth rate. 35 “And how about the famines? Famines in India in the late 19 th century took 15 to 30 millio... ...azis. “Just looking at the 19 th century, the large and small wars, famines and uprisings killed about 54 million during the century. We cou... ...ze it was so many, commander. So obviously wars, revolutions, massacres and famines are not doing the job of effectively controlling our population. ... ... warming and the eventual lack of water we won’t have some really effective famines? Maybe they will supplement the natural disasters enough to redu... ...ms to be trying to limit populations Along with HIV we have ebola, malaria, famines, influenzas, tidal waves, wars, uprisings, volcanic eruptions, hu...

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...hen the famine and rising food prices put most of them back on the dole. Famines keep happening—Biafra in the 60s, Bangladesh in the 70s, Ethiopia ... ...ses and nitrates added to our foods to control botulism. God has provided famines and science has provided improved seeds. God has provided so many ... ...gions I might follow. I would be afraid of a god who has provided floods, famines, wars, and terrorism. On the other hand look at all the oil He put...

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...l be like yesterday--a yesterday with no global warming, no terrorism, no famines, no water shortages, no nuclear threats. That „once upon a time‟ e...

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...re not able to grow anything else. To me, it is a political problem, like man- made famines in Africa. It might be possible to help these farmers ou...

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...nowing and all powerful as well as all merciful and all- good, allow wars, famines, terrorism, tsunamis, rapes, murders, genocides? Then, since evolu... ...n probably should have come some time earlier, perhaps before the African famines due to global warming and the lack of water. Maybe AIDS, revolutio...

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...nesian rice crop failure. China suffered for thousands of years from repeated famines simply because everyone was using a single plant as a staple f... ...pected dissidents. Without Mao’s bloody purges and reign of Terror, and mass famines and starvations: the people of China are even unhappier now th... ...h to do that? But stories of self-sacrifice are everywhere. Throughout wars, famines, droughts, disasters, in times of crisis: people who love each... ...bjects. Now the Industrialized West grows fat from the worldwide epidemic of famines, floods, and droughts; which their fossil fuel warming of the ... ...were flooded later, by starving, poor Europeans: seeking to escape the potato famines. The potato: which Holland and the Netherlands had invented as...

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... Yet, the alternative is cataclysmic. Unintended wars, rampant disease, and lethal famines will ultimately trim our numbers - no matter how noble ...

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... Yet, the alternative is cataclysmic. Unintended wars, rampant disease, and lethal famines will ultimately trim our numbers - no matter how noble ...

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...ngdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. 9 But take heed ...

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...er knees, as before the slow unweaving of some ancient prophetic doom. The famines, the extraordinary diseases, the insurrections of the peasantry up ... ...gincourt, his successor, thus disinheriting the Dauphin, his son. 74 2 THE FAMINES, ETC.: Horrible famines occurred in 112 The English Mail-Coach and...

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...m against kingdom: 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be...

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... shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these...

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...t; he had heard of it as a peace- able citizen in a town hears of battles, famines, and floods, and yet knows nothing of what these things mean — thou...

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...ot lawful for them to receive. (Acts 16:20, 21.) All troubles, calamities, famines, wars were laid to the charge of the Gospel of the apostles. Howeve... ..., for the disobedience of subjects to their rulers, for wars, plagues, and famines, for revolutions, and every other evil that can be imagined. No won...

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...nce we have also as our reward what we seek and deserve: pestilences wars, famines, conflagrations, floods, wayward wives, children, servants, and all...

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...o mark an indubitable progress of mankind, that, before the Christian era, famines were of frequent occurrence in coun- tries the most civilized; afte...

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...her knees as before the slow unweaving of some ancient prophetic doom. The famines, the extraor- dinary diseases, the insurrections of the peasantry u...

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...s in the heavens, tempests out of the common order of the sea sons, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes in various places; all which will not hap...

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...ody diuretic. Mortality! thou hast thy monthly bills; Thy plagues, thy famines, thy physicians, yet tick, Like the death watch, within our e...

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...shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these ar... ...ngdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows. 9 But take heed ... ...m against kingdom: 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be...

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...t nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: 8 Now all these are the beginnings of s... ...om against kingdom, and there shall be earth- quakes in divers places, and famines. These things are the beginning of sorrows. 9 But look to yourselve... ...nd there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs. 12 But be...

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...the plagues of Egypt. Despite the unrivalled agrarian fertility of Russia, famines recur with dire frequency, with disease and riot in their train, wh...

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...other’s nose, the smashing stroke of her paw, the hunger unappeased of several famines, had borne in upon him that all was not freedom in the world, t...

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...tish youth arrived in the red-hot noonday, whimpering a little at fate and famines, which never allowed any one three months’ peace. He was Scott’s su...

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...l lead to phases of over-population and scarcity, there will be occasional famines and occasional 82 An Englishman Looks at the World pestilences and...

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..., In the blue sea left the handle; Hence the poverty of Northland, And the famines of Pohyola. Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel, Hastened to the broad se...

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...eful to them, for any special purpose, would be carefully preserved during famines and other acci- dents, to which savages are so liable, and such cho...

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...ef. Alma 45:11 11 Yea, and then shall they see wars and pestilences, yea, famines and bloodshed, even until the people of Nephi shall become extinct—... ...ore, there began to be wars and contentions in all the land, and also many famines and pestilences, insomuch that there was a great destruction, such ...

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..., found almost everywhere great difficulty in procur- ing subsistence. The famines which they are said to have occa- sioned almost wherever they went,... ...e season. Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of...

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...Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condi- tion of the Savages — Famines —Cannibals — Ma- tricide — Religious Feelings — Great Gale — Beagle...