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A famine is a widespread scarcity of food [ 1][ 2] 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.
The Vulture and the Little Girl. The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993. It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken boy, initially believed to be a girl, [ 1] who had collapsed in the foreground with a hooded vulture ...
A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. [ 4] The worst famine to hit the country in a century, [ 5] it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia 's 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia.
Biafran airlift. A girl during the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s. Pictures of the famine caused by Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide. The Biafran Airlift was an international humanitarian relief effort that transported food and medicine to Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.
In spring 1934, two boys find a cache of potatoes during the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. (Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
2012. Yang, Xinhua News Agency senior journalist and author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, concluded there were 36 million deaths due to starvation, while another 40 million others failed to be born, so that "China's total population loss during the Great Famine then comes to 76 million."
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [ 1] The famine caused many deaths over an extended number of years and marked a clear end to the ...
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. [ 1] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad —for a period of ...