What is famine?

The term of food famine is commonly related to the source of food, which is mainly used in the failure of common crops with foods, for example in a time of drought or other types of crop failure or in war times when there is a serious risk of starvation and malnutrition. Food is often a source of wild food, which means plants or animal that is hunted or collected rather than cultivated or bred. Studies have shown that many famine foods are nutritious, but are often considered undesirable, probably because of their strong connection with difficult times. Some famine meals also disgusting very well and can cause digestive problems or disease when consuming in large quantities. Examples of famine food include bread made with ground bark in Scandinavia at a time of lack, wild grass consumed in Russia in war times and algae, which was consumed in parts of Ireland at the time of famine.

Food of famine is often a wild plant that is resistant and schoIt will survive bad weather conditions that destroy agricultural crops. Knowledge of what can be used in times of famine is usually transmitted orally from generation to generation. These traditional knowledge often remain strong in traditional communities, especially those in the developing world, where alternative food sources are still great. In more industrial companies, most of these traditional knowledge have been lost.

In many companies, famine meals are considered taboo food sources in a prosperous time. This social stigma is partly due to the fact that famine food is considered poverty, because they are primarily poor people or in poor times. However, what is considered to be famine or poverty can change over time. For example, until the end of the 18th century, the lobster was considered poverty in parts of Atlantic Canada and the Eastern United States. Then he gained afterPurities and the eve of it became a high state food.

In Ethiopia, the use of the famine of the local population is used as one indicator of how serious the ongoing famine is. Ethiopian famine food sources include fruits of cactus, various wild leafy vegetables, wild fruit trees and wild shrubs. A certain effort has been made to domesticate certain plants used as a famine of food in Ethiopia, because these native plants are more tolerant and need less pesticides than imported crops. However, the strong social taboo and the side effects of consuming certain famine foods prevented this effort.