The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine)
    

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M0014873: Group of emaciated men during the famine in Bangalore (Bengaluru), 1876-78

Saint Benedict of Nursia: after he has assured the monks of his monastery that God would not let them starve, several sacks of corn appear, which porters carry into the monastery. Line engraving by G. Giovannini after L. Massari.

Les Delices de Leide, Pieter van der Aa, 1712

The Great Irish Famine / prepared for the Economic History Society by Cormac Ó Gráda.

The siege of Leiden in 1574: starving people dying, people killing dogs for food etc. Line engraving.

Famine : social crisis and historical change / David Arnold.

The famine in Mayo, 1845-1850 : a portrait from contemporary sources / compiled and edited by Ivor Hamrock.

Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Le tocsin! or the address of Citizen Famine!!! to the oppressors of his counry. [sic]

Le tocsin! or the address of Citizen Famine!!! to the oppressors of his country. By a friend to liberty, peace and justice

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Le tocsin! or the address of Citizen Famine!!! to the oppressors of his counry. [sic]

Le tocsin! or the address of Citizen Famine!!! to the oppressors of his country. By a friend to liberty, peace and justice