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	Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Famine is associated with naturally-occurring crop failure and pestilence and artificially with war and genocide.
		Famine is sometimes used as a tool of repressive governments as a means to eliminate opponents, as in the Ukrainian Famine of the 1930s.
		The Great Famine of 1315-1317 (or to 1322) was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century, millions in northern Europe would die over an extended number of years, marking a clear end to the earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th and 12th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famine (4520 words)

	Famine
		A famine is an phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are undernourished and death by starvation becomes increasingly common.
		Famine was so well known in the ancient world that Famine was one of the biblical Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
		Modern famines have often occurred in nations that, as a whole, were not suffering a shortage of food.
	famine.ask.dyndns.dk (2777 words)

	Famine - Dic.blogopt.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by starvation becomes increasingly common.
		There were approximately 25 major famines spread through states such as Tamil Nadu in South India, Bihar in the north, and Bengal in the east in the latter half of the 19th century, killing between 30 and 40 million Indians.
		The first, the Bengal famine of 1770, is estimated to have taken nearly one-third of the population.
	dic.blogopt.com /Famine (3697 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Africa's forgotten famine
		Nor is it a famine in the sense of communities starving to death.
		However, there is a chronic and severe food shortage, which has been largely overshadowed by similar but bigger crises on the mainland of eastern and southern Africa.
		The government says that the real figure is twice as high, but sceptics suggest it has a vested interest in inflating the numbers to maximise aid.
	www.guardian.co.uk /famine/story/0,12128,983259,00.html (796 words)

	Climate - The Debate with Industry - Countering The Sceptics
		The Climate Sceptics are a handful of scientists, many directly subsidised by the fossil fuel lobby and promoting what numerous mainstream scientists regard as blatant misinformation on climate science, thereby contesting the urgent need to tackle the problem of global warming.
		Whilst some of the sceptics are credible scientists they have chosen to align themselves with one side of the debate over global warming and have promoted viewpoints which have been found to lack credibility.
		The so-called science on which most of the sceptics base their arguments is in the main a combination of deliberate misrepresentation of IPCC reports, contextual inaccuracy and unsubstantiated conclusions.
	archive.greenpeace.org /climate/industry/reports/sceptics.html (12975 words)

	Famines - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Famines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The food availability deficit (FAD) theory explains famines as being caused by insufficient food supplies.
		A more recent theory is that famines arise when one group in a society loses its opportunity to exchange its labour or possessions for food.
		Crop failures do not inevitably lead to famine; nor is it always the case that adequate food supplies are not available nearby.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Famines (250 words)

	Where nature tortures those unfortunate enough to have been born there - [Sunday Herald]
		Journeying from famine to fish suppers is bizarre and unsettling.
		And, after all, famine has been such a feature of African life that mothers in the privileged first world were for years able to emotionally flmail children reluctant to eat at mealtimes by telling them, 'think of the starving children in Africa'.
		Put this in the context of the 1984 famine, in which the eight million people affected prompted the Live Aid appeal, and the scale of today's impending disaster is truly terrifying.
	www.sundayherald.com /29689 (1104 words)

	Humanitarian Practice Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sceptics, however, doubt that this level of community involvement and participation is feasible during a complex emergency.
		These doubts stem from two fundamental, if not altogether evidence-based, assumptions: first, that communities disintegrate during complex emergencies, especially when population displacement is widespread; and second, that even if communities survive these conditions, community mobilisation is a time-consuming luxury for programmes struggling to address urgent needs.
		This scepticism, however, stems from a narrow definition of what communities are — a definition that in practical terms bears little resemblance to the evidence and information emerging from humanitarian operations.
	www.odihpn.org /report.asp?ID=2506 (2143 words)

	sehepunkte - Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften - 3 (2003), Nr. 11
		Despite a long-running historiographical debate that has flared up again the past two decades, this work, perhaps surprisingly, is the first serious attempt to quantify the existence and the magnitude of any shortages on a regional or national scale.
		The sceptics have rather suggested that 'wood shortage', or fear of predicted shortages of raw material for heating and building, was primarily a rhetorical device that allowed the early modern state to legitimate and expand its control over valuable resources, frequently in alliance with large business interests.
		By the late eighteenth century one hears very little of 'wood shortage' or 'timber famine' from countries such as England and the Netherlands, who although favoured with alternative fuels, had in part overcome such difficulties by a 'timely' escape from political and jurisdictional fragmentation and the development of free trade.
	www.sehepunkte.de /2003/11/2359.html (1399 words)

	Sustaining the earth
		Sceptics, though, continue to wonder whether the summit will make any headway at all on the key issues, and whether such events are the most sensible way to tackle the issues of poverty and development.
		Scientists and environmentalists agree, though, that the effects of floods are made worse by deforestation, building on flood plains and population growth in cities.
		Africa’s famine is made worse by poor land-use policies in some countries, and by, for example, the land confiscation programme pushed through by President Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
	www.tcnj.edu /~set/ste.htm (1128 words)

	Developments - The International Development Magazine - Ethiopia now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But when the BBC’s Michael Buerk delivered his famous ‘biblical famine’ report from Tigray in northern Ethiopia in 1984, inspiring Bob Geldof to storm into action with one of the most ambitious programmes of emergency aid ever, a powerful myth took root.
		But twenty years from the emergency of the mid-1980’s, it is now widely understood that politics – albeit in tandem with philanthropy – is the only means of enabling a country like Ethiopia to climb from long-term poverty.
		Sceptics predicted that the exercise of democracy would be undermined by repression and intimidation in some areas, but others pointed out that after so long as a one-party state, where government critics were killed in the “Red terror”, it could only be a sign of progress that such elections took place at all.
	www.developments.org.uk /data/issue30/ethiopia-now.htm (3069 words)

	Ephraem Syrus - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Near the end of his life he rendered great public service by distributing provisions in the city during a famine.
		The best attested date for his death is the 9th of June 373 It is clear that this chronology leaves no room for the visit to Egypt, and the eight years spent there in refuting Arianism, which are alleged by his biographer.
		Thus the Roman edition contains (of metrical works) exegetical discourses, hymns on the Nativity of Christ, 65 hymns against heretics, 85 on the Faith against sceptics, a discourse against the Jews, 85 funeral hymns, 4 on free-will, 76 exhortations to repentance, 12 hymns on paradise, and 12 on miscellaneous subjects.
	www.1911ency.org /E/EP/EPHRAEM_SYRUS.htm (1847 words)

	The Ultimate Famine Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		An account from the First Intermediate Period states, "All of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger and people were eating their children." ([1])
		In 1770, India experienced the first Bengal famine of 1770.
		Actual famine did not occur, for the Amsterdam grain trade [with the ] guaranteed that there would always be something to eat in Holland although hunger was prevalent.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Famine (2698 words)

	5/5/2006 -- 400 million face famine as pollution pushes up temperatures
		GLOBAL warming is made worse by man-made pollution and even optimistic projections suggest that the Earth will warm by a dangerous 3 degrees by 2050, according to a draft report by the world's leading climate scientists.
		The increase will be the biggest in 20,000 years and is likely to cause drought, famine and mass extinction, scientists said.
		The report's strong language should refute climate change sceptics who say rising temperatures are the result of natural variation rather than human activity, environmentalists said.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=55965 (654 words)

	Society \| The price of survival
		As famine hits countries in southern Africa, aid organisations are at odds over a pilot scheme that is giving cash instead of food
		Give people cash, say the sceptics, and you risk increasing insecurity and corruption, upsetting local economies, fuelling conflicts and excluding the most needy.
		A growing body of evidence suggests that most of the sceptics' fears are myths, and that people given cash or vouchers overwhelmingly spend it on basic essentials, says Paul Harvey, a research analyst at the Overseas Development Institute in London.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5333748-112238,00.html (964 words)

	Advocate of Destiny Volume I by R. Merle Fowler ... Quantinium Publishing
		But of course there are always the sceptics, we find out later and too late, who don't look to grasping from history's mistakes.
		The sceptics are those who remind us that we have technology coupled with an economic powerhouse filled with universities staffed with the best minds of our times.
		Fowler's investigations have led him into the mysteries of major cycles in history that pertain to the so-called "6 apocalypses" that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time (whenever that is).
	www.bookmasters.com /marktplc/00977.htm (3333 words)

	famine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ever arose the increasing tale of famine on the Inside.
		When the babe was three years old, just after the great war, during which no man could sow or reap, a famine came upon the land, and the people murmured because of the famine, and looked round like a starved lion for something to rend.
		He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /famine (359 words)

	syngenta cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alessandro Pellegrineschi explores the scientific prospects for developing crops that are resistant to drought, and says that sceptics of GM technology must be won over to prevent future tragedies.
		A concerted effort is now required to convince both decision-makers and environmentalist critics that the value of crops produced in this way — and the capability to alleviate to some extent the suffering faced by rural people in drought conditions — strongly outweighs any perceived health and environmental dangers.
		Failure to win over the sceptics could result in tragedies that are ultimately as much the responsibility of humans as of nature.
	www.checkbiotech.org /blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=4638 (903 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But the drama that is now being played out across the region (see page 571) raises some serious issues to which sceptics should pay heed, before they dismiss the problem as just another example of African governance gone awry.
		The first issue is the extent to which aid donors like to enjoy most of the fruits of their own benevolence.
		It is certainly to be hoped that the United States is not using the current famine threat to get its GM crops into Africa through the back door to expand the restricted export market for them.
	www.connectotel.com /gmfood/na140802.txt (678 words)

	28/1/2005 -- Climate change impact disputed
		The meeting, held yesterday at the Royal Institution in London, was billed by organisers as "a valuable opportunity for debate on a topic frequently obscured by angst and alarmism".
		Fred Singer, a former director of the US Weather Satellite Service, told the conference that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had overestimated the risk posed by carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that scientists think warms the atmosphere by trapping heat.
		Bob May, the president of the Royal Society, said the sceptics were a "denial lobby" similar to those who refused to accept that smoking caused cancer.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=38452 (789 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society Environment \| Climate change impact disputed
		Welcome to the UK's first dedicated meeting of climate change sceptics, where the consistent message is that global warming will not have a catastrophic effect, and if it does there is little the world can or should do about it.
		Famine, war and disease were bigger threats to civilisation.
		He did not dispute that carbon dioxide emissions could drive global warming, but said: "The IPCC is monolithic and complacent, and it is conceivable that they are exaggerating the speed of change."
	society.guardian.co.uk /environment/story/0,14124,1400652,00.html (716 words)

	EuropaWorld 2/11/2001 London Hosts Global Compact Initiative
		Two months before the UN's Millennium Summit held in New York (in what seems now another age but was actually September 2000) another new initiative trickled from the fertile pen of UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.
		This was the Global Compact for Business - an initiative that started with a few enthusiastic backers and a wide audience of sceptics but one that has since steadily gained momentum and respect.
		This week the Global Compact is the subject of a conference being held in London which has attracted participants from a wide segment of business and labour interests.
	www.europaworld.org /issue55/londonhosts21101.htm (397 words)

	UK Indymedia - CAP helps stop famine in Africa : Stop being conned by free market
		The free market worjks for all industry byut not for foodm, health, educatrion and other essential opublic services food is an essential public service and needs ameasure onmf control.
		Look at the potato famine and the Indian famines, caused by the free market when they couldn't afford our food prices.
		The last time we had a free market in Britain in the days of the empire, 1940s India was exporting food while 4 million Indians starved.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2005/07/317922.html (378 words)

	Speech Given by Deputy Minister Pahad inParliament on Tuesday, 13 June 2000
		Today we are acutely conscious of the fact that the technological revolution and information highway ensures that we are constantly bombarded with reports of African conflicts, brutality and famine.
		We have to therefore tackle the issue of poverty if we want to ensure that democracy, good governance and the rule of law is not only achieved but sustained.
		We are not windbags who can indulge in the luxury of scepticism and despondency, but we must constructively and critically examine the challenges facing Africa and the developing countries.
	www.dfa.gov.za /docs/speeches/2000/paha0613.htm (2306 words)

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	Developments - The International Development Magazine - Cash or food? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The idea of giving money rather than food or other commodities is politically and socially controversial.
		Give people cash, say the cash sceptics, and you will increase insecurity and corruption, upset local economies, fuel conflicts and exclude the most needy.
		Apart from being physically risky for people handling the money, they say, cash may disadvantage women who are less able to keep control of it.
	www.developments.org.uk /data/issue32/cash-food.htm (2151 words)

	Skeptics Canada: Skeptical Topics: Mental Defence Mechanisms
		Yet these threats are reasonable enough to the child, given his or her limited knowledge of the world.
		However, the anti-monster techniques are used later by adults who don't want to think about real-world problems such as war, famine, torture and so on.
		These strategies also get pressed into service to protect systems of thought that provide protection of the psyche.
	www.skeptics.ca /articles/campbell-defence.html (1070 words)

	Blessed Hope Ministries - International
		Even as the Lord Jesus Christ, was on His way to pay the ultimate price, as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world, He continued to prophesy.
		This prophecy reminds us that at this time, when the greatest atrocity ever committed occurred, there was NO famine.
		Considering the arrogance & selfishness of today's generation they will not behave rationally & in a civilised manner when faced with worldwide famine.
	www.bhm.dircon.co.uk /dry.html (329 words)

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