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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to: war, natural disasters, crop failure, 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…

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Famine

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related to Sources and further reading · 358
Famine → Adamant Media Corporation, ADB Institute Research Paper, Africa, African Famine, African Famines, Agence France-Presse, Agra, Agrarian, Aid, Ainsworth, Alexander, Alfani, Almqvist, Amartya, American Journal, American Scientist, Americas, An Essay, Annual Review, Anthropological Perspectives
related to External links · 42
Famine → Affairs Digital ArchivesMorning Star, Africa's Food Crisis, Against HungerUnited Nations World, Agriculture, Arable Land Shortage, BBC News, Case, Celia, David, Dean Peter Krogh Foreign, Drought, Dugger, Ethiopia, Famine Crimes, Farmland Investing, February, Fishermen And The Race, Food Policy Research Institute, Food Programme Hunger, Food Security
related to 21st century · 35
Famine → Afghanistan, Africa, April, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Congo, Covid-19, Democratic Republic, Ethiopia, Girls, Governments, Haiti, Honduras, If, International Council, Nigeria, On, Organizations, Since, Somalia
related to 20th century · 34
Famine → Approximately, Axis, Bengal, Bengali, Biafran, British Indian Army, Burma, Burmese, Cambodia, China, Chinese, Civil, Colonial, Delhi, During, East China, Ethiopian, Government, Imperial War Cabinet, India
has prevention · 26
Famine → Africa, Agriculture Organization, Chad, Darfur, Despite, Djibouti, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia, Famine Early Warning Systems, FEWS NET, Humanitarian, In, In January, In July, Kenya, Middle East, Network, Niger, Relief, Somalia
related to State-sponsored famines · 22
Famine → According, Arch Getty, China, Davies, Francoist Spain's, Getty, Great Leap Forward, In, Mark Tauger, North Korea, Peasant, Several, Simon Payaslian, Soviet, Stalinist, Stephen, The, The Soviet, These, Ukraine
related to Climate and population pressure · 21
Famine → Alex, Arizona, Black Death, Britain, Changing, Economist Amartya Sen, Europe, France, Historically, However, Hundred Years' War, In France, Malthus, Malthusian, Middle Ages, Population, Principle, The, Thomas Malthus's Essay, Waal
related to India · 20
Famine → Afghanistan, Amartya Sen, Bengal, Bhatia, Bihar, Britain, British, Deccan, Dutt, For, Great, India, Indian, Owing, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Sen, Srivastava, Tamil Nadu, The Second Anglo-Afghan War, There
related to Attempts at famine alleviation · 19
Famine → America, Baring Brothers, British, By, Co, Confronted, Due, Europe, February, However, In, Industrial Revolution, Ireland, Lyons, Peel, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Sir Robert, The, The Great Famine
related to Risk of future famine · 15
Famine → Africa, An, As, Asia, Beginning, Between, Developed, Food, Green Revolution, However, If, In, Ug99, WHO, YALE

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Famineis awidespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors0.90text
flaxinstance ofThey grew many industrial crops0.80text
hempinstance ofThey grew many industrial crops0.80text
hopsinstance ofThey grew many industrial crops0.80text
Luanda Kongoinstance ofThe first documentation of weather in West-Central Africa occurred around the mid-16th to 17th centuries in areas0.80text
howeverinstance ofThe first documentation of weather in West-Central Africa occurred around the mid-16th to 17th centuries in areas0.80text
not much data was recorded on the issues of weatherinstance ofThe first documentation of weather in West-Central Africa occurred around the mid-16th to 17th centuries in areas0.80text
disease except for a few notable documentsinstance ofThe first documentation of weather in West-Central Africa occurred around the mid-16th to 17th centuries in areas0.80text
cottoninstance ofThe introduction of cash crops0.80text
and forcible measures to impel farmers to grow these cropsinstance ofThe introduction of cash crops0.80text
sometimes impoverished the peasantry in many areasinstance ofThe introduction of cash crops0.80text
such as northern Nigeriainstance ofThe introduction of cash crops0.80text

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