Scenarios about 'famine'

Famine refers to widespread food scarcity resulting in malnutrition, starvation, and elevated mortality rates across a geographic region or population. Throughout history, famines have been triggered by various factors including crop failures, extreme weather events, wars, economic policies, and political decisions, often exacerbated by inadequate distribution systems or deliberate withholding of food. In alternate history scenarios, famines serve as critical turning points that can drastically alter population demographics, trigger migrations, topple governments, or redirect the trajectory of technological and agricultural development.