Famine
"And there shall be famines..." (Mat.24.7)

END Home	Site Top	On This Page	Related Articles

Related Topics
Check out the related sections in: - Famines - "Mommy, I'm Hungry" - The Simple Solution - The Great Waster: War

All Articles on Topic

61 Articles Found | Hide Details | Recent Articles on Topic | Search Entire Site

Recommended Articles

Fidel Castro on the world economy

The Globalist 3rd March, 2001
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

One in eight hungry

Agence France-Presse December 31, 2000
More than 800 million people still suffer from hunger or diseases associated with undernourishment.

Half of farm soil imperiled

Associated Press September 22nd, 2000
75 percent of all cropland in Central America is seriously degraded, 20 percent in Africa and 11 percent in Asia.

Iraq says sanctions kill 10,295 people in November.

Reuters April, 2000

Population: The boom heard 'round the world'

Washington Post; Associated Press; Anthony Browne and Richard Reeves, The Observer; Matt Kaufman, Boundless; Linda Chavez, Jewish World Review March 2000

Globally 790 Million Malnourished

Agence France-Press October 17, 1999

Richest 16% of the World Uses 80% of the Natural Resources

CNN October 16, 1999

Water worries

Associated Press July 1999

N. Korean population shrinks by 3 million

Yahoo! Feb 17, 1999

Kofi Annan's Astonishing Facts

New York Times News Service
4% of the 225 richest men's wealth could provide for entire globe: basic education, basic health care, adequate food, clean water and safe sewers.

The coexistence of feast and famine

Los Angeles Times

Other Articles

Water systems in trouble

Associated Press December 31, 2000
Fresh water systems around the world are so environmentally degraded they are losing their ability to support human, animal and plant life.

Time running out for drought-hit Aral Sea region

Reuters November 25, 2000
The Aral, the world's fourth largest inland body of water, has receded hundreds of miles since the 1960s, leaving in its wake villages stricken with a dwindling water supply, hot summers and salty soil.

Drought, the undramatic disaster

William K. Stevens, NY Times News Service September 22nd, 2000
In an average year drought is responsible for about as much economic damage as floods and hurricanes combined.

South Asia reels from drought and famine

The Christian Science Monitor August 27th, 2000
Today, up to 80 million people lack water, and hundreds of thousands of animals are perishing in what locals call the worst drought in a century.

World food supply at risk, experts warn

CNN August 16th, 2000
Honeybees, the primary species that fertilizes food-producing plants, have suffered dramatic declines in recent years, mostly from afflictions introduced by humans.

Return of famine ravaging Ethiopia

Karl Vick, Washington Post Foreign Service July 26, 2000
The United Nations warns that as many as 16 million people are at risk in 10 countries across East and central Africa, from Burundi to Eritrea on the Red Sea.

Thirsty planet

Agence France-Presse July 2, 2000
Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank, made an ominous prediction in 1995 "Many of the wars of this century were about oil—but the wars of the next century will be about water."

Water, water everywhere--but only 0.8% to drink

Robin McKie, The Observer April 2000

West Bank Arabs parched as settlers swim

Reuters March 8, 2000

Water crisis "likely to hit 40 countries"

South China Morning Post / Associated Press March 2000

Drought Hits Syria Hard

CNN October 21, 1999

Locusts Swarm Russia

UPI October 1999

A Middle Eastern Drought Threatens a Flood of Problems

August 1999