food crisis
Mass starvation threat
A food crisis is a situation where large numbers of people face severe hunger due to supply shortages, distribution failures, or unaffordable prices.
Crises may result from drought, war, economic collapse, or disrupted supply chains.
The term typically describes regional or national emergencies rather than individual hardship: The war triggered a food crisis across the region.
- famineSevere food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- failed harvestAgricultural season's total loss
shortage · scarcity · empty shelves · rationing · breadlines · soup kitchen · malnutrition · refugees · aid · relief · crops · harvest · failing · prices · price gouging · hoarding · panic · emergency
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
- global crisespandemic, economic collapse, financial collapse, climate change, water scarcity
- North KoreaPyongyang, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-il
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- farm disasterscrop failure, crop blight, failed harvest, drought, locust plague
food availability and access
food crisisfood security
Guaranteed adequate nutrition access
plenty · bumper crop · feast · cornucopia · land of plenty