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Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Industry > Food Industry > Food Supply > Famine

Preferred term

Famine  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine)

History note

  • 2020; 1986-2019 use STARVATION

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000079685

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