FAMINE
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, almost every country used to face famine issues in the past. Up to now , there are still lots of countries facing this issue because of various reasons. Natural causes include droughts, floods, earthquakes, insect plagues, and plant disease. Human causes include wars, civil disturbances, sieges, deliberate crop destruction, poverty, and inefficient food distribution. Famine will cause malnutrition, epidemic disease, and increasing death rate.
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NUMBER OF HUNGRY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012).
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Reference Table (the standard used by the UN), famine occurs when the first three of the following conditions occur:
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