| 1 | Famine here is very serious. The government has already given out relieving grain to this area. | |
| 2 | And on top of the Taliban insurgency, the Afghanistan people are now battling food crisis. | |
| 3 | Towards the latter part of the occupation, the Japanese sought to ease the food problems by organising mass deportations . | |
| 4 | Most are fleeing to Niger and Chad where families are still struggling to recover from severe food shortages that threatened ten million people just last year. | |
| 5 | The riots of 2007 and 2008 brought back to mind the question of world famine. |