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A woman, man, and child, all dead from starvation during the Russian famine of 1921–1922. 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.
Famine in the English Midlands [66] England: 1730s Famine in Damascus [4] Ottoman Empire: 1732–1733: Kyōhō famine: Japan: 12,172 – 169,000 [67] 1738–1756: Famine in West Africa, half the population of Timbuktu died of starvation [68] West Africa: 1740–1741: Irish Famine (1740–1741) Ireland: 300,000 – 480,000: 1750–1756: Famine ...
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In the late 1920s, cochineal decimated southern Madagascar's raketa vegetation (Opuntia sps.), leading to the first Kere. Dactylopius tomentosus. The cacti (Opuntia ficus-indica, O. tomentosa, O. robusta, O. monacantha, and O. vulgaris), introduced by a French count starting in 1769, had served as a famine food source and barrier to colonial control in southern Madagascar, enabling indigenous ...
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A famine is a phenomenon in which a large proportion of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by starvation becomes increasingly common. In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still strikes many parts of the world, mostly in the developing nations.
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