For slowly developing disasters, such as droughts or famines, a different telecommunications strategy is needed.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

I often talk to refugees Why was it that the West didn't realize that famines are caused by policies and politics, not by weather?

Amartya Sen won his Nobel Prize for saying, Guess what, famines happen in the presence of food because people have no ability to buy it.

(iii) Encouraging it to convene timely meetings, as required, to assess threats to development, such as famines, epidemics and major natural disasters, and to promote coordinated responses to them

For a long time society was strongly hierarchal and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished population, were crushed by the weight of the taxes, wars, and famines.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles these are the beginnings of sorrows.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles these are the beginnings of sorrows.

To this end, the Council should convene timely meetings, as required, to assess threats to development, such as famines, epidemics and major natural disasters, and to promote coordinated responses to them.

But when hunger is caused by famines where social organizations deny a group access to food, even when there is ample food available in the country, the problem is one of social exclusion.

Help for Arab families that are enduring hardship because of natural disasters and famines and action to ease the suffering of those afflicted by war, occupation and armed conflict, by providing them with emergency assistance.

It is worrying to note the reappearance of quot paternalistic quot views of development aid, consisting in giving priority only or principally to reactive responses to dramatic situations, mass famines or the sequelae of wars and displacements.

And so an explosive situation will remain explosive, North Korea s population will continue to suffer famines and tyranny, and words of war will continue to fly back and forth across the 38th parallel. So far, they are just words.

For we are engaged not in revolution, but in peaceful democratic evolution. Ukrainians have endured the worst that man can do to his fellow man Stalin s orchestrated famines of the 1930 s and the Nazi slaughterhouse of World War II.

The economic takeoff of these two giants started 40 years ago with the introduction of higher agricultural output and an end to famines. Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.

Humanitarian disasters, the tsunami, recent famines in Africa and Hurricane Katrina have reminded us, if there ever was a need, of the fact that we need to have instruments with sufficient financial resources that can be mobilized more quickly and on a more predictable basis.

Biodiversity is essential for reliable and stable long term food production. The famines in Ireland in the nineteenth century and in Ethiopia in the late twentieth century provide clear evidence of the vulnerability of undiversified crops to environmental changes, and the dramatic consequences of such vulnerability for the population.

Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has demonstrated that free speech even helps mitigate seemingly natural catastrophes like famines, because it reveals the ways in which a few haves exploit the many have nots. As the watchdog organization Transparency International reminds us, corruption exposed is in many cases corruption prevented.

Parallel with the eruption of conflicts mostly with root causes associated with past ills and economic deprivation and the appearance of famines and other human disasters in many areas, Africa apos s continental and regional capacity to work in a concerted manner for peace, stability and economic development has increased.

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen has emphasized that most famines are associated not with a shortage of food, but the failure to get food to the people who need it, largely because they lack purchasing power. America, the richest country in the world, clearly had the resources to evacuate New Orleans.

Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning economist, has pointed out that great Indian rulers, such as Ashoka (third century BC) and Akbar (sixteenth century), advocated pluralism, tolerance, and reason long before the European Enlightenment. He has also observed that famines don t occur in democracies, because freedom of information helps to prevent them.

Those countries do not attract global interest, except when they are provided with so called humanitarian assistance in response to fratricidal wars, great famines or cyclical droughts. But it is not only Africa. Let us take a look at the other third world regions, where from a statistical standpoint many societies seem to have progressed.

When we eat our meals, we are unaware of the deforestation that has resulted from unsustainable farming. And when billions of our actions combine to create famines and floods halfway around the world, afflicting the poorest people in drought prone Mali and Kenya, few of us are even dimly aware of the dangerous snares of global interconnectedness.

We should care about that scenario, because remaining on a path of rising global emissions is almost certain to cause havoc and suffering for billions of people as they are hit by a torrent of droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and more. We have already experienced the onset of this misery in recent years, with a spate of devastating famines, floods, and other climate related disasters.

Both ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians view the tenth century feudal state known as Kyiv Rus very favorably. Moreover, both groups share the seventeenth century Cossack warrior Bohdan Khmelnytskyi as their most popular historical figure, and both revile Stalin due to the famines caused by his forced collectivization of agriculture in the 1930's (whereas most ethnic Russians in Russia view Stalin as the heroic state savior of WWII).

Beyond these questions, a theory of justice can draw substantially on the insights and analytical results emerging from social choice theory (as I discussed in my 2009 book The Idea of Justice). Furthermore, the understanding generated by social choice theorists study of group decisions has helped some research that is not directly a part of social choice theory for example, on the forms and consequences of gender inequality, or on the causation and prevention of famines.