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Famine in Yemen (2016–present) Since 2016, a food insecurity crisis has been ongoing in Yemen which began during the Yemeni Civil War. [10] The UN estimates that the war has caused an estimated 130,000 deaths from indirect causes which include lack of food, health services, and infrastructure as of December 2020. [11]
Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union. An American charity postcard showing the scale of the deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922. Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the 11th to the ...
Em resposta, os Estados Unidos criaram o FEWS (Famine Early Warning System) para antecipar possíveis fomes em massa e aconselhar como a fome pode ser prevenida e seus efeitos mitigados. No começo de Julho de 2000, o nome foi alterado para Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET).
Famine, Affluence, and Morality. " Famine, Affluence, and Morality " ("Fome, Riqueza e Moralidade") é um dos mais conhecidos ensaios do filósofo Peter Singer. Foi escrito em 1971 e publicado na revista Philosophy and Public Affairs em 1972 .
The Chalisa famine of 1783–1784 in the Indian subcontinent followed unusual El Niño events that began in 1780 and caused droughts throughout the region. [1] Chalisa (literally, "of the fortieth" in Hindustani) refers to the Vikram Samvat calendar year 1840 (1783). [2] The famine affected many parts of North India, especially the Delhi ...
Location of the Famine Stela in Egypt. The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic ...
The Mount Edziza volcanic complex (MEVC) is a group of volcanoes and associated lava flows in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Located on the Tahltan Highland, the MEVC has a broad, steep-sided lava plateau; its highest summit is 2,786 metres (9,140 feet). Its volcanoes formed over the last 7.5 million years during five cycles of magmatic ...
