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Definitions of famines in various dictionaries:
noun - an acute insufficiency
noun - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
noun - a widespread scarcity of food
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| Dearths |
| Biblical hardships |
| Feasts' antitheses |
| food shortages |
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| Plural form of famine. |
| extreme scarcity of food. |
| Extreme scarcity of food. |
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A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every inhabited continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history. In the 19th and 20th century, it was generally Southeast and South Asia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe that suffered the most deaths from famine. The numbers dying from famine began to fall sharply from the 1970s. * Some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, continue to have extreme cases of famine. Since 2010, Africa has been the most affected continent in the world. As of 2017, the United Nations has warned some 20 million are at risk in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen. Agricultural conditions have been fluctuating more and more due to variations in weather, and the distribution of food has been |