famine emergency

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• Famine Emergency Committee —    The Famine Emergency Committee was established by President Harry S. Truman in February 1946 in response to the food crisis that affected Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In addition to issuing conservation orders diverting… …   Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

• Famine scales — are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full scale famine. The word famine has highly emotive and political connotations and there has been extensive… …   Wikipedia

• Emergency service — Emergency services are organizations which ensure public safety by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal… …   Wikipedia

• Famine — This article is about scarcity of food. For other uses, see Famine (disambiguation). Child victim of the Holodomor. A famine is a widespread scarcity of food. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation …   Wikipedia

• Famine relief — 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. In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the… …   Wikipedia

• Emergency management — Accident preparedness redirects here. For Safety related articles, see Safety. Disaster preparedness redirects here. For other articles related to disaster preparedness, see Category:Disaster preparedness. Emergency management is the generic name …   Wikipedia

• Famine response — The famine response is how the body of a human or animal responds to malnutrition.The body uses glucose as its main metabolic fuel if it is available. About 20% of the total energy consumption occurs in the brain. The rest of the glucose… …   Wikipedia

• Chronology of the Great Famine — Main article: Great Famine (Ireland) An 1849 depiction of Bridget O Donnell and her two children during the famine. The Chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór[1] …   Wikipedia

• North Korean famine — Arduous March 고난의 행군 Country North Korea Location national Period 1994 1998 Total deaths 0.9 to 3.5 million Observations Economic mismanagement,[1] …   Wikipedia

• Great Famine (Ireland) — The Great Famine ( ga. An Gorta Mór [The term has appeared in the titles of numerous books on the event, as demonstrated by [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Gorta+Mo%CC%81r%22 =Search qt=results page this search on WorldCat] ] or ga. An… …   Wikipedia

• Bengal famine of 1943 — The Bengal famine of 1943 is one amongst the several famines that occurred in British administered Bengal. It is estimated that around 4 million people [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s19040.htm] died from starvation and… …   Wikipedia