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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.
food security and famine and hunger are not to be confused: food security refers to. the availability of food whereas famine and hunger are the consequence of the non-. availability of food, in other words the results of food insecurity. The FAO definition of food insecurity is: ËA situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious. food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.