How Famine affects poor people : A Need of the hour understanding

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According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Reference Table (the standard used by the UN), famine occurs when the first three of the following conditions occur:
  1. 20 percent of population has fewer than 2,100 kilo-calories of food a day
  2. 30 percent of children are acutely malnourished
  3. Two deaths per 10,000 people, or four deaths per 10,000 children per day
  4. Pandemic illness
  5. Access to less than four liters of water per day
  6. Large-scale displacement
  7. Civil strife
  8. Complete loss of assets and source of income
Below video footage shows Famine conditions in Ethiopia that occurred in 1984. 


Famine conditions still exist in other parts of the world:
  • Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012, a study shows.
  • Half of them were children under the age of five, says the report by the UN and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net).
  • The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said humanitarian aid needed to be provided more quickly.
  • The crisis was caused by a severe drought, worsened by conflict between rival groups fighting for power.
  • The number of deaths was higher than the estimated 220,000 people who died during the 1992 famine.
Sources and Credits:
International medical corps