Question

difference between drought and famine

Answer 1

Drought:

1.The most common form of drought is a lack of water vapor in the atmosphere, which causes precipitation. A lack of moisture in the air causes wildfires that can damage communities and food supplies, ruin forests, or harm people and animals.

2.Of all the water on earth, only .003 percent is available fresh water that is not polluted, trapped in soil, or too far underground. During a drought, shared sources of water such as rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater for wells are in jeopardy of running dry.

Famine:

1. Famines rarely happen because of a single event and often are the result of many years of struggling to grow food in a harsh environment.

2. Famine doesn’t usually cause the deaths of whole communities. Instead, it’s often old people and the youth who suffer from disease and malnutrition as they are the most vulnerable.

Answer 2

Drought and Famine

Drought

It can be defined as a prolonged shortage of water caused mainly by change in climatic conditions and weather patterns (poor rainfall, longer summer, etc. and global warming.

This is indicated by dry cracked earth and dried/drying water bodies.

Prolonged drought can result in

• Poor soil quality  in farmlands and reduced yield.
• Decrease in water sources for domestic consumption.  
• Malnutrition
• Epidemics
• Migration of people
• Economic loss

Famine

It is severe scarcity of food affecting a huge population or a region.

The contributing factors are prolonged drought, crop failure, natural calamities, man-made chaos including war, inflation, population, or government policies or a combination of any of these.

Famine can cause

• Acute malnutrition in a population
• Extremely poor living conditions
• Disease outbreaks
• High mortality rate
• Social disorganization  and disharmony

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