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famines <a famine; famines> N

famines
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famine <a famine; famines> N

famine

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After 1815, increased agricultural productivity met a larger food supply, and a decline in famines, epidemics, and malnutrition.
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This led to their impoverishment and aggravated various famines in these countries in the second half of the 19th century.
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There was frequent fighting, plunder and raids from all sides, of recent epidemics, famines, and a locust invasion had challenged the society.
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Historical and legendary evidence names some 90 famines in 2,500 years of history.
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Between 1914 and 1918, a series of epidemics such as typhoid and famines struck the town, resulting in the reduction of the population.
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The country has suffered from droughts, famines and grinding poverty that led to violent dissent.
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Persistent trade deficits, wars, revolutions, famines, depletion of important resources, and government-induced hyperinflation have been listed as causes.
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The famines led to a rapid increase in the number of paupers and vagrants taking to the roads to find work, charity and food.
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Usually, merchants begin hoarding food as a crisis develops in conflicts, to keep it from being stolen, in famines, to get higher prices.
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While the demographic impact of famines are immediately visible in mortality, longer-term declines of fertility and natality can also dramatically affect population.
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