"Food shortages" refers to a situation when there is not enough food available to meet the needs of a population. This means that people may have difficulty finding or affording enough food to eat. Full definition
Besides storing fat, the body has several methods to survive periods of food shortage and starvation. (alivebynature.com)
This will ease the problems caused by food shortages which so far have resulted in a further 44 million people being forced to live in poverty. (earthtimes.org)
The last time the world faced food shortages on a global basis, agricultural scientists produced the green revolution. (religion-online.org)