Famine

[lamplady]

Does anyone know in what specific Countries famine occurs or occurred in the world today - like from 1970's?

And I mean famine, (extremely little or literally no food for a prolonged period of time); starvation not malnutrition.

Just interested

 

[Michae1]

North Korea comes to mind. Not sure what countries specifically to mention in Africa.

 

[Theofilus]

Wikipedia has a list of famines going all the way back to the 5th century BC. Since 1970, they have this on their list:

• 1967–1970 Biafran famine caused by Nigerian blockade
• 1968–1972 Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people[68]
• 1973 famine in Ethiopia; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule
• 1974 famine in Bangladesh
• 1975–1979 Khmer Rouge. An estimated 2 million Cambodians lost their lives to murder, forced labor and famine
• 1980 famine in Karamoja, Uganda
• 1984 famine in Ethiopia
• 1991–1993 Somalian famine
• 1996 North Korean famine . Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million).
• 1998 famine in Sudan caused by war and drought
• 1998–2000 famine in Ethiopia. The situation worsened by Eritrean-Ethiopian War
• 1998–2004 Second Congo War. 3.8 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease
• 2000–2009 Zimbabwe's food crisis caused by Mugabe's land reform policies
• 2003– famine in Sudan/Darfur (Darfur conflict)
• 2005 Malawi food crisis
• 2005–06 Niger food crisis
• 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis
• 2008– Myanmar food crisis. The Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma's major rice-producing region.
• 2008– North Korean famine
• 2008– Horn of Africa food crisis
• 2008– Afghanistan food crisis
• 2008– Bangladesh food crisis
• 2008– East Africa food crisis
• 2008– Tajikistan food crisis
• 2009– Kenya food crisis[80] 10 million Kenyans face starvation.

Note that the list includes 2 famines that started in the 60's and lasted into the 70's.

 

[lamplady]

Wow! What an impressive list :o

Thank you guys

Not sure if 'food crisis' constitutes an outright famine but Ethiopia and that region appears to get famine the most. Africa overall. Interesting.

Don't know what I was expecting but I'm going to cry as well pray now ... ...

 

[Theofilus]

You can go to the link in my post above to find out more about each famine.

 

[Pard]

Man made famines were all the "rage" in the USSR. Stalin was big on killing people via starvation... Not sure if that is to early for your date requirement or not.