9.1% of Asia, 8.6% of Latin America and the Caribbean, 5.8% of Oceania 1921-1922 – Famine in the Soviet Union, results in 9 million deaths. 1927 – In China (northwest), 3 to 6 million perish.

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net ... insecurity in nearly 30 countries in Africa, central America and Asia for 40 years. It was funded by the US Agency for International Development ...

the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago and initially directed. FEWS NET monitors 30 countries across Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and South Asia ...

CAIRO — The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the ...

The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of escalating violence.

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...