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There was nothing to eat then. We ate linden leaves… and nettles. We used to grind these wild plants into flour, bake with it, and eat it. That’s what we ate during the famine. – Liubov Yarosh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history. – Wang Feng	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Pre-COVID years, we talked about famine, but it was relatively rare, today, we have this domino effect of climate and COVID and cost and conflict, and they're all beating up on each other. – Barron Segar	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We desperately need weapons that can make our skies safe, that we can use to unblock our cities where Russia is artificially creating famine. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's feast or famine at the moment --( countries) get nothing for three months, and all of a sudden they get millions of doses, supply has to come in a predictable, reliable manner. – Andrea Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
42 million people that are literally knocking on famine's door, this is a worst-case scenario. – David Beasley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When Jessica Maddox look at how much weight bears need to gain to survive six months of famine, Jessica Maddox can't help but cheer them on. People love bears and they love a good competition, for us, we are happy to share because fat bears exemplify the richness of Katmai National Katmai National Park and Bristol Bay, Alaska. – Amber Kraft	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Taliban represent an abusive authority, a brutal regime that has killed people and repressed and plans to subjugate the human rights of millions of people in coming years, but none of that will matter to those people if they're dead because of famine. – John Sifton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The recent admission by the Department of Defense that The United States companies are still authorized to maintain Saudi warplanes, means that our government is still enabling offensive Saudi operations in Yemen, including bombings and enforcing an inhumane blockade on Yemen's ports, the administration must use its existing authority to block The United States civilian contractors from aiding the Saudi war effort, before more Yemenis are plunged into famine. – The United	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Thank god, it is a long shot from the Arduous March, and I hope it would never come to that, the most important thing is that there is no famine in the country today. – Ambassador Alexander Matsegora	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We fear that there will be inevitably a chilling effect on my efforts to bring the parties together, the decision will contribute to the prospect of famine in Yemen and should be revoked based on humanitarian grounds at the earliest opportunity. – Martin Griffiths	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We can't rule out the possibility that extreme environmental events, like famine, could affect offspring sex ratios. But we can say for sure that the variability of environments that Swedes born after 1932 experienced did not affect their having boys or girls. – Brendan Zietsch	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Witch bottles are the type of things people would use more generally in famine, political strife or feeling under threat, the Union troops were definitely under all those kinds of existential threats or fears. – Joe Jones	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The experiences I had with( Communist Party leader Mao Zedong) were the great famine and the The Cultural Revolution, and none of my family's life had improved. Deng Xiaoping in 1978 released the potential of individuals. – Deng Xiaoping	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's difficult to know just how bad the situation really is, it doesn't look like we are headed for another famine, but the food situation definitely appears to have deteriorated. – Peter Ward	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The threat of famine is a very real threat and risks doubling the numbers of people in Yemen who are at risk of dying of hunger or famine. That's the urgent factor here. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The FAM seeks to change this by moving towards famine prevention, preparedness and early action—interventions that can save more lives and reduce humanitarian costs by as much as 30 percent. – World Bank	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
What will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country. – Jamie McGoldrick	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This epidemic is spreading further and faster than anything we've seen before, what will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country. – Jamie McGoldrick	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
During a famine, death does not necessarily come from starvation, but often from disease as weakened people succumb. – Russell Geekie	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We cannot wait like we did in 2011 when we acted too late, we need to deal with this today - if we don't this drought will turn into a famine. – Hany El-Banna	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This means that we must not wait until the situation reaches famine but must act now to provide humanitarian aid directly. – Adham Musallam	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are facing the potential of a huge humanitarian catastrophe ... The levels of malnutrition that are being reported for children are extremely critical, a nutritional survey will be done at the end of October. How close are we to a famine declaration? We see some zones that are worse than others. – Afshan Khan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To many people around the world, their image of Ethiopia remains stuck in the past -- remembering drought and famine, but in the past 15 years, Ethiopia has lifted millions of people out of poverty. – Boko Haram	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

There was nothing to eat then. We ate linden leaves… and nettles. We used to grind these wild plants into flour, bake with it, and eat it. That’s what we ate during the famine.

– Liubov Yarosh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history.

– Wang Feng

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Pre-COVID years, we talked about famine, but it was relatively rare, today, we have this domino effect of climate and COVID and cost and conflict, and they're all beating up on each other.

– Barron Segar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We desperately need weapons that can make our skies safe, that we can use to unblock our cities where Russia is artificially creating famine.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's feast or famine at the moment --( countries) get nothing for three months, and all of a sudden they get millions of doses, supply has to come in a predictable, reliable manner.

– Andrea Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

42 million people that are literally knocking on famine's door, this is a worst-case scenario.

– David Beasley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When Jessica Maddox look at how much weight bears need to gain to survive six months of famine, Jessica Maddox can't help but cheer them on. People love bears and they love a good competition, for us, we are happy to share because fat bears exemplify the richness of Katmai National Katmai National Park and Bristol Bay, Alaska.

– Amber Kraft

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Taliban represent an abusive authority, a brutal regime that has killed people and repressed and plans to subjugate the human rights of millions of people in coming years, but none of that will matter to those people if they're dead because of famine.

– John Sifton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The recent admission by the Department of Defense that The United States companies are still authorized to maintain Saudi warplanes, means that our government is still enabling offensive Saudi operations in Yemen, including bombings and enforcing an inhumane blockade on Yemen's ports, the administration must use its existing authority to block The United States civilian contractors from aiding the Saudi war effort, before more Yemenis are plunged into famine.

– The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Thank god, it is a long shot from the Arduous March, and I hope it would never come to that, the most important thing is that there is no famine in the country today.

– Ambassador Alexander Matsegora

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We fear that there will be inevitably a chilling effect on my efforts to bring the parties together, the decision will contribute to the prospect of famine in Yemen and should be revoked based on humanitarian grounds at the earliest opportunity.

– Martin Griffiths

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We can't rule out the possibility that extreme environmental events, like famine, could affect offspring sex ratios. But we can say for sure that the variability of environments that Swedes born after 1932 experienced did not affect their having boys or girls.

– Brendan Zietsch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Witch bottles are the type of things people would use more generally in famine, political strife or feeling under threat, the Union troops were definitely under all those kinds of existential threats or fears.

– Joe Jones

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The experiences I had with( Communist Party leader Mao Zedong) were the great famine and the The Cultural Revolution, and none of my family's life had improved. Deng Xiaoping in 1978 released the potential of individuals.

– Deng Xiaoping

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's difficult to know just how bad the situation really is, it doesn't look like we are headed for another famine, but the food situation definitely appears to have deteriorated.

– Peter Ward

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The threat of famine is a very real threat and risks doubling the numbers of people in Yemen who are at risk of dying of hunger or famine. That's the urgent factor here.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The FAM seeks to change this by moving towards famine prevention, preparedness and early action—interventions that can save more lives and reduce humanitarian costs by as much as 30 percent.

– World Bank

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

What will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country.

– Jamie McGoldrick

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

This epidemic is spreading further and faster than anything we've seen before, what will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country.

– Jamie McGoldrick

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

During a famine, death does not necessarily come from starvation, but often from disease as weakened people succumb.

– Russell Geekie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We cannot wait like we did in 2011 when we acted too late, we need to deal with this today - if we don't this drought will turn into a famine.

– Hany El-Banna

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This means that we must not wait until the situation reaches famine but must act now to provide humanitarian aid directly.

– Adham Musallam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are facing the potential of a huge humanitarian catastrophe ... The levels of malnutrition that are being reported for children are extremely critical, a nutritional survey will be done at the end of October. How close are we to a famine declaration? We see some zones that are worse than others.

– Afshan Khan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To many people around the world, their image of Ethiopia remains stuck in the past -- remembering drought and famine, but in the past 15 years, Ethiopia has lifted millions of people out of poverty.

– Boko Haram

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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