Why were the ravages of famine worse than ever in the nineteenth century despite the overall growth in food production?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Ravages of famine
1. effects of increased food production were unevenly distributed
2. famine killed more people in the nineteenth century than at any other
period in recorded history
a. 4.3-7 million people in India in 1876–1878
b. China's famine described as "the most terrible disaster in twenty-
one dynasties"
3. political neglect aggravated famine
a. large empires under distant or indifferent rulers
4. crops that people depended on for nutrition were traps
a. people became overreliant on them
b. potatoe famine in Ireland
5. famine due to drought
a. unusual concentration of El Niño events in the 1890s
b. 12 million deaths in India and 20 million in China
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