Famine scales are metrics of food security going from entire populations with adequate food to full-scale famine. The word "famine" has highly emotive and political connotations and there has been extensive discussion among international relief agencies offering food aid as to its exact definition. For example, in 1998, although a full-scale famine had developed in southern Sudan, a disproportionate amount of donor food resources went to the Kosovo War. This ambiguity about whether or not a famine is occurring, and the lack of commonly agreed upon criteria by which to differentiate food insecurity has prompted renewed interest in offering precise definitions. As different levels of food insecurity demand different types of response, there have been various methods of famine measurement proposed to help agencies determine the appropriate response.
The personification of Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, is represented as a man riding a black horse holding a pair of famine scales speaking the phrase “A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”
Faminescales are metrics of food security going from entire populations with adequate food to full-scalefamine. The word "famine" has highly emotive...
The Indian Famine Codes, developed by the colonial British in the 1880s, were one of the earliest faminescales. The Famine Codes established three levels...
A famine is a widespread scarcity of foodcaused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread...
hunger" recorded on the IPC scale since its inception in 2004, and according to experts, may become the most intense man-made famine since the Second World...
Indian famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876–1878, and the Bengal famine of 1943...
The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor...
timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during...
The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic...
security contexts. The following table includes a summary of the IPC scale: Faminescales Global Acute Malnutrition "IPC Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table...
Famine relief is an organized effort to reduce starvation in a region in which there is famine. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large proportion of...
Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular...
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The Great Bengal famine of 1770 struck Bengal and Bihar between 1769 and 1770 and affected some 30 million people. It occurred during a period of dual...
The North Korean famine (Korean: 조선기근), also known as the Arduous March or the March of Suffering (고난의 행군), was a period of mass starvation together with...
The 1992 famine in Somalia resulted from a severe drought and devastation caused by warring factions in southern Somalia, primarily the Somali National...
Nuclear famine is a hypothesized famine considered a potential threat following global or regional nuclear exchange. It is thought that even subtle cooling...
The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and carries the scales. The fourth and final horse is pale, upon it rides Death, accompanied...
ranging from 15 to 55 million, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest or second-largest famine in human history. The major changes which occurred in...
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