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famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

severe famine

Great Famine (Ireland)

Great Tempo Famine

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

drought; water shortage

Orissa famine of 1866

Rajputana famine of 1869