... looking for the reasons? What can we do? How can we help? These questions are very common today, but the help is still too small. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country is undernourished and death by starvation. Famine was so well known for thousand years and people suffer from it also in the ancient world. Famine was one of the biblical four horsemen of the Apocalypse. In spite of the much better technological and economic resources of the modern world, in spite of million people who want to help - famine still strikes many parts of the world, mostly in the developing nations. Famine is associated with many aspects of nature, economy, administration, political situation, naturally-occurring crop failure and pestilence, artificially with war and genocide. Africa, Asia, and South America - these regions are at the highest place ...

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