0 a long period when there is no food -- hungersnød [ masculine ]
1 (a) great lack or shortage especially of food -- hungersnød, matmangel
This was a gritty world of poverty, famines, floods, banditry, unrest.
At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.
Their greatest differences stemmed from the manner in which they presented themselves as famine managers, and to whom.
However, human migrations, landless people, famine and fragmented landscapes speak for themselves.
Certainly some of the prints showed starvation and famine so severe that money and supplies must have been wanted.
Moreover, some of the workers left areas plagued by famine.
Fifteen droughts were severe enough to have caused famine, and 11 of them, or 87%, followed large eruptions within two years.
Abnormally high motality may be the hallmark of famine, but societal breakdown is its essence.
