Tag: famine
Do Overweight or Thin People Live Longer During Famine?
Imagine, you found yourself on a deserted island as a result of a shipwreck. You have nothing in the way of food with you. What features of your body would…
Public Cannibalism Due to Famine in Russia in the 1920s
In the early 1920s, Russia faced one of the greatest famine disasters in its history. During this period, the problems experienced in Russia’s agricultural sector, the devastating effects of the…
Nuclear missiles, but no rice – North Korea in the hunger crisis
>>iOS Why hunger is a constant companion for many North Koreans He ordered irrigation systems to be improved, more farm machinery to be built, and more arable land to be…
Famines: The world food system is not working
Sudanese farmer with grain Dependence on wheat is high worldwide. (Photo: dpa) Berlin When Martin Frick, head of the UN World Food Program (WFP) in Germany, talks about the future…
The world fears a new famine
davos David Beasley is used to warning, but these days the director of the UN World Food Program is warning with a new urgency: “We are facing the worst humanitarian…
The Greens learn free trade with Robert Habeck
Celebrities who come to Davos for the World Economic Forum like to make two commitments: one for a better world, the second for free trade. But never before has anyone…
Russia wages war with hunger and deprivation
Annalena Bärbock According to the Foreign Minister, Russia is preventing Ukraine from exporting 20 million tons of grain. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) new York Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has accused Russia…
Russia wages war with hunger and deprivation
Annalena Bärbock According to the Foreign Minister, Russia is preventing Ukraine from exporting 20 million tons of grain. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) new York Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has accused Russia…
Ukraine war: Federal government plans “grain bridge”
Grain The federal government wants to transport up to 52 containers or several thousand tons of grain out of the Ukraine with each train. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Frankfort Railway transports…
It is still in the hands of the EU to avert a hunger crisis
cereal grains Russia and Ukraine account for a quarter of world wheat exports. (Photo: dpa) Nothing is as socially explosive as rising food prices and hunger. The bloody riots of…