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Famine: The Largest Humanitarian Disaster

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Famine will be one of the biggest humanitarian disasters and we can see this with the famine that hit Somalia, it is not only a lack of food but the lack of clean water and proper hygiene is setting off an outbreak of killer diseases in displaced persons camps. Therefore, the effect of famine or drought is far worse than a lack of food for consumption.
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So many lands, farms, fields of fruits and vegetables are gone because of the drought. All this happened because of a shortage of water from once green and healthy crops to dead dry brittle crops that are abandoned by a drought. For example, we had to cut back on watering my lawn and it went from a green lawn to a dead lawn, because of cut backs. Mat Wiser said that, “ Water will become one of the defining limits to human development and a compound factor in human misery,”(2009 Wiser). If we don’t have water we will die faster without water than food, we can’t be greedy on something that we thrive and survive

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DBQ: Famine in Ethiopia: How did the government make it worse? (hook)From 1983-1985, a famine in Ethiopia caused millions to die. In 1984, grain prices increased by 300% and five Ethiopian provinces set all-time lows for rainfall. Many people, blamed the famine on the drought, but later figured out that the real cause was politics. Soviet-backed communist Derg took over and worsened the famine.

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The British rule in India during the Imperial period was extremely negative for the Indian people however, the British rule ultimately created a improved Indian nation. The British forced the idea of monoculture, were racist, created unfair trade and economic distress. For the Indian nation they did provide an education system, human rights, peace and created a more modern society. The British rule began in the early 1600s.

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The drought’s direct effect is most often remembered as agricultural, many crops were damaged by deficient rainfall, high temperatures, and high winds, as well as insect infestations and dust storms that accompanied these conditions. This caused many migrant workers to not be feed, as the food source was very limited. In conclusion these three events play a huge role in

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In the world today, we face many problems. One of the most important problems we need to find a cure for is hunger. I think i have a solution to end this distatutouse problem. If we don 't try to end hunger in third world countries, then we will all go hungry very soon. All 's it takes is fixing poverty, fertility, using earths full potential, and giving out food rations, to end hunger.

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The poor are not responsible for hungry lives, without water and electricity. There are deep inequalities and fundamental deficiencies of social organization. The problem of hunger is not only a question of food production (the bigger, the better) but also of access to food and equity. There are no winners and losers. With these degrees of exclusion, we 're all losers.

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The water, food shortage is all over the place, but if I take one example, I think Syrian refugees are crisis right now. Syrian refugee's water and food shortage had started since 2011. This is caused by war, the civil war between the rebel

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Our world has been struggling with hunger for a while, but why doesn 't anyone put an end to it? There are people who are dying of hunger while we sit down for three big, fat meals each day. And if we don 't finish one of those meals, we just throw them away. We could be saving lives, but instead, we just throw that opportunity away. Do you ever even give starvation a thought?

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Food Insecurity The continuous increasing demand for the food requires the rapid improvement in food production technology. In a country like Ethiopia, the economy is mainly based on agriculture and the climate conditions are isotropic, still we are not able to make full usage of agricultural resources. The main reason is the lack of rains and scarcity of the land reservoir water in some areas of the country.

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