Famines & the global food crisis

“A famine is a widespread scarcity of food that is accompanied by regional starvation, epidemic, malnutrition and increased mortality.” Famines and food shortages continue to be a global problem. Currently in Niger, lottery winners win food. Nearly 12 million people in Niger now have food insecurity. Famines often occur during epidemics, so it is important to educate you and you're family on the history of epidemics. Food shortages could reach the United States in 2010 and bring on food riots and food insecurity.

Protect you're family from food shortages by stocking pantries and cellars with emergency food and water supplies.

Famines

1906 Russia	1907 & 1911 East-central China
1914–1918 Mount Lebanon Famine during World War I that killed about a third of the population	1914–1918 Belgium
1915–1916 Armenian Genocide-Armenian deportees starved to death	1916–1917 Famine caused by the British blockade of Germany in WWI
1916–1917 Winter Famine in Russia	1917–1919 Persia-1/4 of the population living in the north of Iran died in the Famine
1917–1921 A series of Famines in Turkestan at the time of the Bolshevik revolution killed about a sixth of the population	1921 Russia killed 5 million
1921–1922 Tatarstan	1921–1922 Volga German colonies in Russia. One-third of the entire population perished
1928–1929 Northern China resulted in 3 million deaths (drought related)	1928–1929 Ruanda-Burundi, causing large migrations to the Congo
1932–1933 Soviet Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor), some parts of Russiaand North Caucasus area. 2.6 to 10 million people may have died	1932–1933 Kazakhstan killed 1.2-1.5 million
1936 China, with an estimated 5 million fatalities	1940–1943 Warsaw Ghetto
1941–44 Leningrad Famine caused by a 900-day blockade by German troops. About one million Leningrad residents starved, froze, or were bombed to death in the winter of 1941–42, when supply routes to the city were cut off and temperatures dropped to −40 degrees.	1941–1944 Greece caused by the Axis occupation. An estimated 300,000 people perished
1942–1943 Famine killed one million in China	1943 Bengal (India)
1943 Ruanda-Urundi, causing migrations to the Congo	1944 Netherlands during World War II, more than 20,000 deaths
1945 Vietnam	1946–1947 Soviet Union killed 1-1.5 million
1958 Ethiopia, claimed 100,000 lives	1959–1961 Great Leap Forward / The Great Chinese Famine (China). The Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng has estimated that 36 million died.
1965-1967 Drought in India responsible for 1.5 million deaths	1967–1970 Biafran Famine caused by Nigerian blockade
1968–1972 Sahel drought created a Famine that killed a million people	1973 Ethiopia; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule
1974 Bangladesh	1975–1979 Khmer Rouge-An estimated 2 million Cambodians lost their lives to murder, forced labor and Famine
1980 Karamoja, Uganda	1984 Ethiopia
1991–1993 Somalia	1996 North Korean Famine Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation
1998 Sudan caused by war and drought	1998–2000 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 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 10 million Kenyans face starvation