Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv...
by rat87 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:56AM
(#12120837)
There's no good evidence for a massive famine due to the dust bowl people lost their saving but few people died.
A famine is different from a crop failure. Crop failures can help cause famines,but typically famines happen because political and/or economic failures. For example in cases of extreme authoritarianism(like the USSR and China - PRC) and colonialism(Ireland, Nepal).
A famine is different from a crop failure. Crop failures can help cause famines,but typically famines happen because political and/or economic failures. For example in cases of extreme authoritarianism(like the USSR and China - PRC) and colonialism(Ireland, Nepal).
see http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert-...