Question

why there are famines?

Answer 1

Sometimes, attempts to help actually make things worse – emergency food aid usually given in kind rather than in cash. ... In short, the current famine is a combination of environmental factors, poverty, corruption and instability on the ground, compounded by political intransigence and bad aid policy in the West.

Answer 2

famine is a widespread scarcity of food, which caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.