starvation; famine; hunger
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
hunger and thirst; starvation
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving
starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure; inanition treatment
starving and freezing to death