GK
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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Famine
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Flood
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Poverty
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Disaster
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Detailed explanation-1: -Famine is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die.
Detailed explanation-2: -The condition that arrives due to long term and severe scarcity of food grains is called famine. Famine can be very severe. One of the main causes for famine is drought. Drought is the deficiency of rainfall over an extended period. Due to lack of water resources, crop won’t grow which results in famine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Today, famine is most common in African countries. In 2011, for example, widespread famine began in the African nation of Somalia. More than 250, 000 people died as a result. In 2017, the United Nations officially declared a famine in parts of South Sudan, where a civil war had begun in 2013.