“ Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just sitting out on the ground? She figured it out just before she heard the dog's ba… Barbara Demick
“ Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that conce… Erin Bow
“ Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. Criss Jami
“ News came of Beni Beni, the madman of Wimbe, who'd always made us laugh in better times. He'd run up to merchants in the trading center with his raving eyes and snatch cakes and Fantas from their stal… William Kamkwamba
“ With the money my mother earned from selling cakes, my father cut a deal with Mangochi and bought one pail of maize. My mother took it to the mill, saved half the flour for us, and used the rest for m… William Kamkwamba
“ Don't worry about the water," said a man with a nervous grin. "This is hardwood, it won't ruin. You'll have this chair into your old years. How much do you have? I'll take anything. My children need t… William Kamkwamba
“ You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. Jalaluddin Rumi
“ Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the… Sharman Apt Russell
“ Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization. Richard Manning
“ As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can… Annalee Newitz
“ I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the… Robert G. Ingersoll
