Famine is defined as a widespread scarcity of food, often accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. The conditions described - widespread deaths due to starvation and epidemics - are precisely the defining characteristics and consequences of a famine event. Lack of food leads to starvation, weakening the population and making them highly susceptible to infectious diseases (epidemics), resulting in mass deaths.
The widespread deaths due to starvation and epidemics are the characteristics of
Asked in UPSC CAPF 2021 · Topic: Poverty & Unemployment (Impacts and Consequences of Poverty on Social Development (Health, Education, Gender, Malnutrition))
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