famine
What Happens When the Food Runs Out?
By the second part of this century wars won’t be fought over land or oil, but rather food. Or more specifically, the lack of it.
What Happens When the Food Runs Out?
By the second part of this century wars won’t be fought over land or oil, but rather food. Or more specifically, the lack of it.
How to Stop Our Food From Killing the Climate From Killing Our Food
Climate change is so unfair to us. It already contributes massively to global food insecurity with "killer droughts":http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/01/the-role-of-drought-in-the-horn-of-africa-famine/, "awful floods":http://www.washingtonpost.com...
Counting Down Until Food Riots Go Global
The term "food riot" has a particularly eerie ring. We can imagine a lot of end-times scenarios and we do, because we enjoy it. Us, here in the United States or whatever other first-world nation you're reading from (we're big in Australia, I hear), can...
Operation Calorie Drop: the UN's Weapons Against East African Hunger are Power Bars and "Nutella"
To bring food to the ten million people starving in eastern Africa, the UN World Food Program is airlifting and driving a dependable weapon in the world's war on the worst famine in ages: five tons of energy bars and knock-off Nutella. The High...
Russians Yawn At Death
Few countries can boast a death count as high as Russia's in the 20th century. Twenty million were killed by Hitler and Stalin each, and millions more were lost in the Civil War, WW1, and the Famine.