Famine
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A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe 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, generally characterized Southeast and South Asia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe, in terms of having suffered most number of deaths from famine. The numbers dying from famine began to fall sharply from the 2000s. Since 2010, Africa has been the most affected continent in the world.
On 8 November 2021, the World Food Programme warned that 45 million were on the brink of famine across 43 countries. Afghanistan had become the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with the country's needs surpassing those of other worst-hit countries — Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria and even Yemen.
See also
- Agriculture and population limits
- Atmit (a porridge used to fight famine)
- Climate change and agriculture
- Famine Early Warning Systems Network
- Food price crisis
- Global Hunger Index
- Hunger
- List of famines
- Malthusian catastrophe
- Overpopulation
- Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
- Starvation
- Subsistence crisis
- The vulture and the little girl: Controversial picture (by Kevin Carter) of a vulture lurking a famine-stricken Sudanese toddler.
- World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (monthly report)
- World Vision Famine events
