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The 29 pages that link to Famine, each with the reason it gives.

• Food securityBroader topic: Famine is the most severe outcome associated with catastrophic failures of food access.

• Volcanic winterRelated: Repeated harvest losses can contribute to famine, though social and economic conditions shape the outcome.

• MalnutritionBroader topic: It is a population-level crisis in which severe undernutrition can become widespread.

• Amartya SenRelated: Sen’s entitlement analysis redirected famine study toward access and distribution, not only supply.

• Food insecurityCompared with: Famine is a population-level catastrophe, unlike household food insecurity as a broader condition.

• Subsistence economyRelated: Crop failure or lost access to resources can overwhelm subsistence livelihoods.

• MalthusianismRelated: Famine is one of the catastrophic population checks in Malthus’s theory.

• Maji Maji RebellionRelated: Crop destruction and displacement turned the military campaign into a devastating food crisis.

• Agricultural surplusCompared with: Surplus may reduce famine risk, but unequal access can leave people hungry despite available food.

• Humanitarian accessRelated: Severe and prolonged restrictions on relief can worsen food crises and impede response.

• Food aidRelated: Large-scale food aid may help avert deaths during famine, though access and timing matter.

• Sahel droughtRelated: Rainfall failure contributed to food crises, though drought alone does not determine famine.

• Kazakh famine of 1930–1933Narrower topic: The disaster was a regional famine produced by policy, ecological stress, and disrupted livelihoods.

• 1931 China floodsRelated: Flooded fields and disrupted transport threatened food supplies after the waters rose.

• Dutch famine of 1944–1945Narrower topic: The Dutch crisis is a well-documented modern example of famine.

• Mount TamboraRelated: Climate disruptions after Tambora contributed to harvest failures and food crises in several regions.

• Russian famine of 1921–1922Narrower topic: The 1921–1922 crisis is one historically specific instance of famine.

• An Essay on the Principle of PopulationBroader topic: It is a central example of the essay’s positive checks on population.

• Four HorsemenRelated: The third rider’s scales and grain prices evoke scarcity and unequal access to food.

• GranaryCompared with: Granaries can reduce seasonal scarcity, but poor access or failed harvests can still produce famine.

• History of foodRelated: Famines expose how harvest failure interacts with inequality and political choices.

• Parable of the Prodigal SonRelated: Famine deepens the younger son's poverty after he has spent his money.

• The Song of HiawathaBroader topic: It marks the poem’s sharp turn from abundance and courtship to grief.

• World War II casualtiesRelated: Wartime blockades, occupation, and disrupted agriculture caused famine-related mortality.

• 1983–1985 famine in EthiopiaNarrower topic: The Ethiopian crisis was one instance of this broader form of humanitarian disaster.

• Great Bengal famine of 1770Narrower topic: The Bengal catastrophe belongs to the broader phenomenon of famine.

• Kinjikitile NgwaleRelated: The colonial campaign’s destruction of food supplies magnified the rebellion’s human cost.

• Mass killings under communist statesNarrower topic: Famine-related deaths arose where coercive policy and state control intensified food crises.

• Volcanic winter of 536Related: Historical reports describe hunger during the years of climatic disruption.