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Asses the extent to which the Root Causes of famine lie in physical geography.
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Asses the extent to which the Root Causes of famine lie in physical geography. In this report I intend to review various cases of famine to discover whether the fundamental causation of famine can be found in physical and human geography. I shall look at drought, and its effects and why it occurs. I will evaluate desertification and the problem that it causes Famine leading to malnutrition claims more lives than any other, it leads to widespread death in a large area, it is arguably the cause of most human suffering. Famines differ from common hunger because they occur infrequently and affect a limited number of people, who die of starvation. One definition is "The regional failure of food production or distribution systems, leading to sharply increased mortality due to starvation and associated disease"(Cox 1981, 5). It is estimated that 800 million people are undernourished (lacking 100 - 400 kilocalories per day)...
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