Famines - Our World in Data
网页A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases.1. It is this crisis characteristic that distinguishes it from persistent malnutrition, which we discuss on another topic page.
Explainer: What is famine? | UN News
网页2024年3月18日 · In the 21st century, climate-related famines have largely been averted thanks to an innovative tool to track acute hunger, developed during the crisis in Somalia in 2004 by the UN Food and...
What is famine? How it's caused and how to stop it
网页2022年8月24日 · What is famine? A famine is declared when a certain set of conditions have been met. This criteria includes at least 30% of a given area's children suffering from severe malnutrition. That means that, by the time a famine is declared, children are already starting to die because their parents cannot give them enough food to survive.
Famine | Definition, Causes, & Facts | Britannica
网页2024年8月27日 · Famine is severe and prolonged hunger in a substantial proportion of the population of a region or country, resulting in widespread and acute malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. Examples of famines in the 20th century include ones in Bengal in 1943, China in 1959–61, Ethiopia in 1984–85, and North Korea during the late 1990s.
Famine Explained: Definition, causes and facts - USA for UNHCR
网页2024年8月5日 · What is famine? Famine is a situation in which a substantial proportion of the population of a country or region are unable to access adequate food, resulting in widespread acute malnutrition and loss of life by starvation and disease. While many countries worldwide face food security crises, famine is only declared when certain conditions are met.
Famine - National Geographic Society
网页2023年10月19日 · Famine is a widespread condition in which many people in a country or region are unable to access adequate food supplies. Famines result in malnutrition, starvation, disease, and high death rates.
What is famine? Causes and effects and how to stop it | Oxfam
网页2024年7月2日 · What does famine mean? According to researchers Dan Maxwell and Nisar Majid, famine is “an extreme crisis of access to adequate food.” Visible in “widespread malnutrition” and “loss of life due to starvation and infectious disease,” famine robs people of their dignity, equality, and for some—their lives.
The timing and causes of famines in Europe - Nature
网页2018年6月14日 · Here we define famine as “a shortage of food or purchasing power that leads directly to excess mortality from starvation or hunger-induced diseases” 1. This definition has a number of advantages....
Quick facts: What you need to know about famine - World
网页2017年3月7日 · Famine is declared in an area when 1 in 5 households or more lack adequate food and other basic needs and acute malnutrition is greater than 30% — meaning people are underweight and unable to...
Great Famine | Definition, Causes, Significance, & Deaths
网页2024年9月16日 · Great Famine, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. The causative agent of late blight is the water mold Phytophthora infestans.
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