A fact from Famine scales appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 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?
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