Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 26, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola
Marian L. Tupy, Human Progress: How Humanity Won the War on Famine
Famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones.
Adequate nutrition is a basic requirement for human survival, yet food was always scarce. The prevalence of food shortages can be gleaned from the profusion of commonly used idioms, such as “feast today, famine tomorrow,” children’s stories, such as Hansel and Gretel, and scriptural references, such as the Biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which Famine accompanies Pestilence, War and Death. In fact, the greatest famine of all time occurred between 1958 and 1962, when the Chinese communist ruler Mao Zedong used brute force to nationalize his country’s farmland, causing between 23 and 55 million deaths in the process.
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WNU Editor: There are exceptions to this trend. Venezuela comes to mind.
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