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Widespread famines stopped happening in the 18th century because of improvements in transportation.
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Ireland has already been mentioned. China during the Great leap forward, Ethiopia in the mid 1980s, North Korea in the 1990s, USSR in the 1920s, and 1930s, and 1947, and India
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There were approximately 25 major famines spread through states such as Tamil Nadu in the south, and Bihar and Bengal in the east during the latter half of the 19th century.
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From the wiki article.
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It's almost inconceivable that such a thing could happen today. If the US can't grow enough wheat, we can just buy it from Canada, or the Ukraine, or Argentina.
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Don't worry about that, tariffs and trade wars have overcome need for thens of millions of people.
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Heh, that was sort of a dumb thing to say. What it would be more accurate to say is that modern famines are usually only caused by huge catastrophes or government intervention. Simple "Oops I forgot to plant enough corn!" is not going to create much of a blip in the market.