Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Famine

The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine)

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The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine)

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2020; 1986-2019 use STARVATION

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Famine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000079685. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000079685
  2. Famine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine
  3. Famine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168247