MeSH definition : The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food
shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent;
and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine);
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine;
The conditions when at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food
shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent;
and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons. (From news.un.org/en/story/2011/07/382342-when-food-security-crisis-becomes-famine)
Allowable qualifiers