When Bosnia went through the Bosnian War in 1992, the amount of food left was scarce. The people that lived in Bosnia had to get creative with the ways they would feed themselves and their families. They would grow plants like tomatoes and flowers in their front yards instead of their backyards, because they were either destroyed or they didn’t have a backyard. They would make salads out of the flowers which were easy seeds to find. Sometimes the UN would supply rations, but it wasn’t very likely. Most of the richer families would sell their stuff on the black market in trade for food. Some of the families would also go to war to get food like cans of beef.
Some things that can cause emergency food assistance can be large conflicts like droughts, earthquakes and other natural disasters. A few others are political instability and war.
Famines can be caused by poor weather and higher prices of food but mainly not having access to the food.
The short term effects of hunger can include weight and muscle loss, body temperatures going down, lethargy and fainting. Some of the long term effects of hunger can be your organs shutting down, except the brain, kidney and liver problems, stunting growth, attainment, more likely to have a misscarriange, long term health issues, higher blood pressure, more of a chance of diabetes, and heart problems.
During World War ll, people would eat things that you wouldn’t think of eating like fungi (mushrooms.)
I think that in unstable countries, farming should be a more important job, and a way that the government could help with this would be to raise the income of farmers to encourage the people to become farmers, so that in times of famine, there will be enough farmers to be able to provide food for everyone in the country.#Famines
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