Famine is when you cant get any food leading to starvation or death. This can be caused by Climate change, natural disasters and crop sicknesses. around 9 million people die every year to famine even though it is very rare.
Some of the most famous famine events are the great:
The Great Chinese famine causing an estimated 30 million people to die. This was from 1959 to 1962. The cause was man made by Mao Zedong he made a program called the great leap forward which aimed to put China in a more modern society so he made people work a lot for food that of which failed big time causing The Great Chinese Famine.
Here is a picture of Mao Zedong:
The Irish potato famine causing an estimated 1 million to die. This was from 1845 to 1849. The cause of this was cause a crop disease called late blight.
The Bengal famine causing an estimated 3 million to die. This was from 1943 to 1944. The cause was British policies, Rice imports and wartime inflation.
The Soviet famine causing and estimated 5.7 to 8.7 million people died. this was from 1930 to 1933. The cause was man made from Joseph Stalin due to the collection of agriculture and soviet industrialisation
The Russian famine had an estimated 375 thousand to 400 thousand. this was from 1921 to 1922. The cause of this was war and civil war.