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Meaning of famine
What is meant by famine?
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- 1 Includes both food shortage and large spatial/numeric extent.
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Famine is a widespread shortage or lack of food affecting a significant number of people.
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Famine means people are hungry.
The definition needs a shortage of food at a wide scale, not just individual hunger.