famine

nouns

an acute insufficiency
dearth, famine, shortage
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
famine
is a type of (narrower)
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy