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A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement its control, humanitarian workers say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/world/society/sudan-rsf-relief-supplies-famine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #sudan #famine #africa
The Japan Times · Sudan's RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say
Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
unpaywalled link to NYT Opinion
https://archive.ph/X14Tw#selection-721.8-721.48
""BernieSanders votes on a resolution that supports #genocide against #Gaza
The American senator, previously known for his (
) left-wing politics, has supported a bill introduced by #LindseyGraham and other war hawks that calls for moves that would essentially destroy Gaza economically and plunge the population into a deadly #famine, all under the guise of “eliminating #Hamas”." #palestine #Palestinians @palestine
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One million people died while a further 1.25 million emigrated. Some regions of Ireland were disproportionally affected, among them Skibbereen, which lost over a third of its people to disease, starvation and emigration.
Dr Larry Geary of UCC, Professor Joe Lee, Professor Mark McGowan, Gary White Deer and Terri Kearney and Philip O'Regan of Skibbereen Heritage Centre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJZb_wlzUo
Ireland 1840’s #Famine Mass Grave at #Skibereen
(10,000 in “the pits”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJZb_wlzUo
Poor Pat Must Emigrate
Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland's Great Hunger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyGTEzmDbPY&list=OLAK5uy_mNpyiHboqy3_y35c8zyniOAvGeI_BliBs&index=7
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At RT, Xenia was #Simonyan’s protegee. As most of you know, Margarita has openly called for bombing #Ukrainian civilian infrastructure & laughed about hoping for a #famine in #Ukraine.
If you’re interested in Simonyan, check out our video about her:
4/16
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The #UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) is calling for the immediate flow of supplies into #Gaza Strip after taking firsthand accounts from mothers who have been struggling to feed their children.
“Parents in Gaza are struggling to feed their children. Hospitals are running out of supplies – again,” OCHA wrote. “It is critical to open up Gaza immediately.”
A mother called Reem said, “We’ve run out of food, water, diapers for kids and detergents,” she said. “What we have can barely suffice us for at most 2-3 days. What would happen to us then.”
#genocide #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #famine
How many will the Great Trump Famine claim?
1. No more farm labourers.
2. Potash from Canada tariffed.
3. Tariffed imported food from Mexico and Canada.
4. No more global consumers of Made in America.
Enjoy the famine your omnipotent Chairman Trump-Putin is creating for you.
#USpol #Ecology #Famine #Tariffs #Hubris #GreatFamine #FourPests
Not to be alarmist...well, maybe, but a #famine will be incoming for the United States. Famines under capitalism tend to take the form of "there's food, we promise, it just happens to be too expensive for you to afford", so...you've technically been under famine conditions for a little while, but it's about to get a whole lot worse. Your latest administration has completely slashed agricultural subsidies, deported thousands of migrant agricultural workers, drained a reservoir in California, and levied tariffs on the three countries it imports the most food from. This is a good time to remember that many revolutions are preceded by famines, and it's time for you to start preparing and start organizing with anyone you can, before you're starving — which, again, I'm sorry to say, it's going to happen.
Talk openly about it; this is the time you can do it safely, and that window is going to be short. Find anyone, literally anyone, who is willing to talk back about the possibility of organizing together. It can be as simple as a mutual aid group, to try to afford bulk food more cheaply together when this happens, but we here, the people of the imperialized world, your fellow workers, are hoping that you will do more, and fight to end both famine and fascism in your country once and for all, no matter what it takes.
Getting rid of all the agriculture workers is going to recreate many of the ‘Great Leap Forward’ conditions in China where Mao took everyone doing agriculture and growing food, and put them on steel and industrial works instead…and you can’t imagine how people starved for YEARS. So many died. It was a living nightmare. Some ate their own children to survive.
A good account is in the biography Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Highly recommended reading.
#agriculture #foodsecurity #food #famine
UN warns of worsening famine in Sudan as fighting escalates
https://www.africanews.com/2025/02/27/un-warns-of-worsening-famine-in-sudan-as-fighting-escalates/ via @euronews
#Sudan #famine
Africanews · UN warns of worsening famine in Sudan as fighting escalates | AfricanewsA humanitarian official has urged the Security Council to take immediate action to protect civilians.
Judge orders #Trump to pay millions in #USAID funds
The judge gives the govt 1 day to resume #ForeignAid payments after a contentious hearing in which a #DOJ lawyer couldn’t say whether funds had been unfrozen as ordered.
The Trump admin on Tues was ordered to pay hundreds of millions in foreign assistance funds that have been in limbo despite the judge’s directive that #aid resume. Trump’s broad pause in aid has led to #chaos globally & dire warnings about escalating #famine & disease.
BBC: 'People will starve' because of US aid cut to Sudan
"The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war, the BBC has learned....
It is estimated that nearly two million people struggling to survive have been affected."
www.bbc.comSudan conflict: USAID cut hits people 'screaming from hunger'Nearly two million people who have relied on community kitchens for food have lost this lifeline.
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
-- Norman Borlaug
#Wisdom #Quotes #NormanBorlaug #Famine #Food
#Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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This is not just something that happens to the crops. It happens to us. As crops start failing, and they will, there will be spikes in prices and ultimately famines due to populations not served. When people aren't getting what they need, they don't sit passively by. There will be unrest. It will get ugly fast. We can plan for some shortfalls if they happen intermittently. But as they become more the norm, that's a big problem.
Our oligarchs imagine that they personally will always have the most money, so first access to things that run short. And they're comfortable with large numbers of others suffering and dying . So we shouldn't get too complacent and assume that things will somehow work out. That isn't the plan they have.
We need to restore democracy and federal institutions that operate in the best interest of the people. And we need to focus on stopping climate change, by seriously retooling the parts of our economy that are egging it on. The oligarchs see climate change as a business opportunity, a chance to sell to desperate people at jacked up prices. They're not interested in stopping it, just being in control of what people will cry out for and pay money for.
You're tempted to say that “moderate" doesn't sound so bad?
It's only "moderate" in that they are less than three standard deviations below the median in terms of weight-for-height, but who con visualise that?
Get a ruler.
Measure out 3.7 cm.
If their biceps (!) is any thicker than that, they suffer only "moderate" acute malnutrition.*
https://www.who.int/tools/elena/interventions/food-children-mam
@palestine
#Gaza #famine #malnutrition #AidBlockade
* The actual definition is in terms of the circumference, but that's notoriously less intuitive than the diameter.
https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/113989714464374552
www.who.intSupplementary foods for the management of moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6–59 months
The administrative #coup in the US is in full swing, but governments in Europe try to normalize this spectacular develoment in handling it like any average event in world politics.
Actually they have all reasons to be alarmed, as the promise to support Russian aggression against Ukraine "as long as it takes with whatever it takes" will rest more and more on the shoulders of their already depleted weapon arsenals and strained budgets.
Meanwhile the pressure from Washington to conform with the economic and geopolitical goals of the new king in the White House increases day by day, so they not only have to fight the bad boy in the East but shelter the #EU from harsher economic measures by the US.
The Euro is on a record low which results in lesser profits from exports into the US, and fascist parties all over Europe are gaining ground fast.
German politicians aren't concerned by this at all, they exploit racist hate against migrants and refugees while trying not to direct attention on to the elephants in the room -
#climatecatastrophe that makes larger parts of the world inhabitable and increases the risk of #famine even in the West,
a #war with Russia that could be initiated preventively by both sides and escalate quickly to a nuclear catastrophe in all of Europe,
and a team of Tech-bros that closes or privatizes US-government institutions who stood for at least some reliable consensus of acting together in a way that doesn't harm the other side too much.
In voting for the far-right #AfD Germans welcome a similar coup attempt in their country as this vote now is a vote for #Musk and #Trump
that's why to vote for #DieLinke in federal elections seems to be the least harmful option.
The Nerd Reich · Memo: 'Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries'Memo details how Elon Musk has orchestrated a stunning takeover of the U.S. government
#Infrastructure in British #India:
"Natural drainage of Bengal was disturbed due to construction of a network of #railway embankments resulting in formation of poorly drained “compartments” in different areas of Bengal. This led to excessive silting, damaged crop production, increased chance of flooding and created stagnant water pockets that were apt for water-borne diseases like cholera and malaria."
Excerpt from: https://learn.culturalindia.net/bengal-famine-1943.html
#famine #starvation #agriculture #rice #Bangladesh #Churchill #wwii #transport #railways #railTransport #crops #colonialism #BritishEmpire #BritishRule
Cultural India · The Bengal Famine of 1943 – Causes, Effects, DeathsThe Bengal famine of 1943 was one of the most devastating famines in history and claimed approximately 2.1-3 million lives.