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famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, disaster, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity; the earthquake was a disaster.
Not sure if this is complete (probably is)but you get the gist of it. List of famines. In a country like USA, you may have roughly 1.6 million people who are homeless and may be going through prolonged periods of hunger and starvation due to inability to access food that is readily available and bountiful. You have an overabundance of food that is easily available as long as you can pay for it.