dust bowl, starvation, hunger, droughts, malnutrition, epidemics, potato blight, destitution, pellagra, impoverishment, undernourishment, calamity, pestilence, desertification, malnourishment, scarcities, floods, malthusian, privation, hyperinflation, holocaust, humanitarian, belg, genocide, rinderpest, disaster, guinea worm disease, thomas malthus, marasmus, underconsumption, great proletarian cultural revolution, poverty, crisis, cataclysms, immiseration, catastrophe, undernutrition, colonialism, malaria, pauperization, graisse, chestnut blight, insecurity, destitute, underdevelopment, pandemic, blackwater fever, misrule, berlin airlift, shortages, black plague, mengistu haile mariam, disease, locusts, balkan wars, drouth, maize, dinkas, diarrheal, biafra, tsunamis, collectivisation, cholera, wars, depopulation, dracunculiasis, apocalypse, autarky, harvests, riots, millet, winterkill, ebola fever, diarrhoea, deprivations, mao tsetung, parthians, myxomatosis, diaster, displacement, pauperism, barrenness, witchweed, orphans, underpopulation, breadbasket, spruce bark beetle, pastoralism, somalis, penury, aridity, slavery, kulaks, turkana, infantile paralysis, misgovernment, enslavement, millennium, sufferings, persecution, heatwave, collectivization, famines, drought, epidemic, scarcity, conflagration, devastation, glut, inundation, catastrophes, earthquake, overcrowding, overpopulation, prewar, war, depression, postwar, bellum, prerevolutionary, postbellum, preindustrial, recessionary, 1914, autarkic, prosperous, bust, transitional, 1945, crash, partition, precontact

four horsemen, starvation, starving, the great calamity, the great hunger, the great starvation, the irish famine

deficiency, lack, want

dearth, shortage