A report dealing with historical famines caught my eye. 2 countries are re-occuring, such being China and Russia, mainly in the 19th and 20th centuries. China lost approximately 32 million people to hunger and Russia approximately 16 million in the course of ca. 100 years to famine only. The reasons for those famines (listed in 'Observations') range from merely natural ones such as drought or floods to political ones such as war and policy failure.
(Source: Survival. Global Politics and Strategy. June-July 2009. Vol. 51 No.3)
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