What is the impact of famine?

Question

What is the impact of famine on; communities, people and landscape.

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Answer 1

You can define famine as a shortage or non existence of food.

Depending on how serious or acute famine is will determine the number of deaths in the community (ies) it affects.

Most episodes of famine currently occur in Africa and India/Bangladesh and are caused by

crop failure,war,or merely insufficient food to feed the population.

In cases of crop failure the usual cause is either complete lack of rainfall-so the crop wilts and dies,or the opposite -floods.So your landscape is going to be either desert/dust in the first case or flooded fields in the other.

With famine comes disease-commonly dysentry and cholera,and high infant mortality.

Communities suffer extreme poverty and their local economies collapse-the people unable to work.They are reliant on food aid,usually from international aid agencies (Red Cross and others).

Along with human populations,livestock-cattle/goats-are also victims of famine and this in turn accentuates the problem for the communities afflicted.

The whole scenario is often repeated year after year as new crops aren't sown and livestock are unable to be replaced.

Answer 2

..massive starvation

..death of both human beings and animals such as livestock

..increased expenses for organizations like WFP which offer relief for such situations

..migration of masses to places that can provide relief for the situation

..break up of family ties,due 2 migration separation

..land fragmentation in areas where masses gather to get food relief

Answer 3

1) Decreases worker productivity in all sectors (industrial, agricultural, etc.)

2) Increased prices of commodities (gas, potable water, medicines) and services (electricity, running water, etc.)

3) Raised taxes (this is to cover the government's costs for recovery programs, aid, the increased reliance on import food, etc.)

4) Increased civil tension (hungry people aren't exactly nice)

5) Health issues (malnutrition and related ails, like malaria)

Answer 4

It reduces obesity among the population.

Answer 5

Impact of famine can increase diseases.

It lowers the productivity. If you are hungry you will be tired all the time, working becomes too hard.

Famine does not necessarily show on landscape, unless hungry people start to grow vegetables to get more food.

June Pelo wrote:

"In the middle ages a variety of breads were baked in Scandinavia. In Finland people ate a fermented and leavened rye bread, baked in an oven. In Sweden they made a bread known as flat bread or thin bread, made from corn and oats and baked on an iron slab over an open fire.

During the years 1596-98 our forefathers were plagued by what is the longest famine in historical times.

There was another kind of bread which was known as famine bread. The population was largely of farmers who were exposed to the forces of nature - utterly dependent on the weather. Each crop failure constituted a deadly threat. In the middle ages, and for centuries after, any part of the country where the harvest failed simply starved, abandoned by all others. It was impossible to shift grain from one province to another - roads were almost non-existent and effective means of transport lacking. At such times the peasant farmer turned to the forest for his bread.

Bark bread became the daily bread. For bark bread, the membrane immediately under the rough bark was used. This inside layer was scaled off with an iron scraper. All members of the family went out and scraped the trees. Then began the process of preparing the bark.

First it was hung up to dry in the open air; then beaten or crushed; then ground into flour. The bark membrane is very thin, and many trees had to give up their skins before there was enough to make dough. Time and patience were needed. The bark was collected in summer, before the end of July. Thereafter the trees might dry up and wither away. The pine tree was usually chosen - and was the most beautiful.

Bark bread was more frequently eaten in Finland than in any other Nordic country. Villages were more isolated, and help was out of the question. Even during the 20th century wars, when food was rationed, the Finns mingled bark in their bread. The bread tasted sour to the tongue and had no flavor.

Our ancestors also used other ingredients for their famine bread. They chopped up husks and straw and used mosses of all kinds. During the many famine years, bark bread has saved numerous people from starving to death. "