famine

In parts of Africa, Central America, and India, drought is already strangling crop yields and threatening famine.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

“But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine, and violent occupation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Muratov abandoned art and returned to the army, and then, after the 1917 Revolution, devoted his skills to famine relief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

And the week the table tennis tournament came to town - which by a stroke of bad luck was the one in which the jury finally retired - turned the accommodation drought into a famine.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

India, for centuries, was wracked by famines and chronic food shortages, leaving generations to survive on meagre nutrition.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025

She said that, in the absence of American aid, she expects famines in places like the Congo to quickly worsen in places like Sudan.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025

Wars, famines, outbreaks, natural disasters … There are, sadly, many reasons why populations might be forced or feel compelled to leave their homes in search of refuge elsewhere, and these cases continue to grow.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

Luke wished he’d had the nerve to ask about the Population Law, or the famines, or even some family history.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix