List of famines

Table

List

See also

Main article lists

• Bengal famine
• Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union
• Famine in India
• Famines in the Czech lands
• Famines in Ethiopia
• Great Bengal famine of 1770
• Great Famine of 1876–1878
• Great Chinese Famine
• Holodomor
• List of famines in China
• North Korean famine
• Timeline of major famines in India during British rule

Other articles

• 2007–2008 world food price crisis
• 2010–2012 world food price crisis
• 2022–2023 global food crises
• Disaster
• Famine Early Warning Systems Network
• Famine events
• Famine relief
• Famine scales
• Food security
• Food security during the COVID-19 pandemic
• List of natural disasters by death toll
• Live Aid
• Medieval demography
• Population decline
• Potato famine
• Starvation
• Theories of famines
• World population

References

Bibliography

• For an open-access near-equivalent of this chapter, see
• Accessed at https://dondena.unibocconi.eu/sites/default/files/media/attach/Dondena_WP084.pdf on 2025-03-15.

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