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widespread famine

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  • Famine — This article is about scarcity of food. For other uses, see Famine (disambiguation). Child victim of the Holodomor. A famine is a widespread scarcity of food. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation …   Wikipedia

  • famine — n. 1) famine strikes ( famine struck several provinces) 2) widespread famine * * * [ fæmɪn] widespread famine faminestrikes (famine struck several provinces) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • famine — fam|ine [ˈfæmın] n [U and C] [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: Latin fames hungry condition ] a situation in which a large number of people have little or no food for a long time and many people die ▪ the great potato famine in Ireland… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Famine scales — are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full scale famine. The word famine has highly emotive and political connotations and there has been extensive… …   Wikipedia

  • famine — /fam in/, n. 1. extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area. 2. any extreme and general scarcity. 3. extreme hunger; starvation. [1325 75; ME < MF, deriv. of faim hunger ( < L fames); see INE2] Syn. 2.… …   Universalium

  • Famine in India — Owing to its almost entire dependence upon the monsoon rains, India is more liable than any other country in the world to crop failures, which upon occasion deepen into famine. [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Famine Famine] , Encyclopaedia… …   Wikipedia

  • Famine au Tibet (1960-1962) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Famine au Tibet. Les subdivisions administratives autonomes tibétaines de la République populaire de Chine, représentées en jaune Le Grand Bond en avant …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Famine food — A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available foodstuff used to nourish people in times of extreme poverty or starvation, as during a war or famine. Quite often, the food is thereafter strongly associated with the hardship …   Wikipedia

  • famine — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ devastating, great, severe, terrible ▪ widespread ▪ man made VERB + FAMINE ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • widespread — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc …   Collocations dictionary

  • 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia — The 1984 1985 famine in Ethiopia were two famines that occurred simultaneously in Ethiopia, of which the northern is the most prominent. In the north, the insurgency of the Tigrayan People s Liberation Front and the government s counterinsurgency …   Wikipedia

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