What is famine?
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famine, 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.
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Widespread scarcity and lack of procurement of food is known as Famine.
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Famine is a form of man-made disaster. It is a situation where there is an extreme scarcity of food. This shortage of food results in widespread hunger.
Famine can be caused due to several factors such as inflation, crop failure, failure of monsoon, inflation, imbalance of population and rapid population growth, government policies, etc.
Famine also results in widespread malnutrition due to which the human resource of the country is heavily disturbed.
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