Three Protestant missionaries died of disease, probably typhus, which was rampant in the famine area.

Quarantine of famine areas until the population starved down to fit the food supply.

He also promised to mobilize government resources to bring food relief to famine areas, reduce the government's international debt, and build a national political consensus.

The area was a backward district, which was considered at that time to be a more or less perpetual famine area.

This Indian state, with a population of more than forty-four million, is the worst drought and famine area in the world.

There are "signs of stabilisation" in the local economy in famine areas.

Distributing the food to the famine areas was extremely difficult and time-consuming, even with Army help.

Since foreign aid from many countries poured into the famine area, a wide variety of non-Russian accounts can be consulted.

The future was indeed at stake, since official Soviet figures put the number of starving children in the famine areas at 7,246,317.

This depleted the famine areas further, and sparked off new hatred amongst the peasants.