famine

     

A famine is a wiespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.

Trivia about famine

  • For the last few years N. Korea has been suffering from one of the worst of these natural disasters in the 20th century
  • A lack of food; Ireland had a potato one in the 1840s
  • In March 1981 Bobby Sands began one of these for the IRA; he died in May as a result
  • One of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • From the Latin for "hunger", it's a period when food is extremely scarce
  • "Oxfam" is short for the Oxford Committee for this Relief

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