Famine has killed at least 105m people since 1870, according to research conducted by the World Peace Foundation. The vast majority were victims of political decisions and acts of war rather than drought. But by the turn of the millennium such man-made disaster had diminished to the extent that experts in the field, such as the UK academic and writer Alex de Waal, felt mass starvation might be a thing of the past.
根据世界和平基金会(World Peace Foundation)的调查，自1870年以来，饥荒已至少造成1.05亿人死亡，其中大多数人死于政治决定和战争行为造成的饥荒，而非干旱造成的饥荒。但到了世纪之交，这种人为灾难已经大大减少，以至该领域的专家——如英国学者兼作家亚历克斯•德瓦尔(Alex de Waal)——认为，大规模饥荒可能已成为过去。
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