grain shortage
Not enough wheat
A grain shortage is an insufficient supply of cereal crops—wheat, rice, corn, barley—relative to demand.
Shortages may result from drought, conflict, export restrictions, or supply chain disruptions.
The term appears frequently in discussions of food security and famine: The war triggered a global grain shortage that sent bread prices soaring.
- famineSevere food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- dust bowlErosion-ravaged drought zone
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
hungry mouths · failed harvest · starvation · food insecurity · rationing · breadlines · bread riots · scarcity · harvest · wheat · silos · empty · empty shelves · barren · fields · relief · relief efforts · aid
- shortages
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
- grain tradewheat futures, corn futures
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- farm disasterscrop failure, crop blight, failed harvest, drought, locust plague
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