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Analyze and discuss the causes that many famines seem to share and systemic actions that can be taken by individual governments and international organizations to reduce the probability and/or severity of famines in the future.

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The solution discusses the causes that many famines seem to share and ways the government can reduce the probability of happening in the future.

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Famine often occurs in different countries and climates but there are several contributing factors that are common to nearly all famines. Countries or populations that heavily rely on agriculture are hardest hit when agriculture is disrupted (by pestilence, drought, floods, civil wars etc.). Another common factor are repressive or controlling governing bodies that sell food to foreign countries for profit instead of feeding their own people. Natural disasters such as those previously mentioned are common to many ...

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