There's no good evidence for a massive famine due to the dust bowl people lost their saving but few people died. A famine is different from a crop failure. Cro

There's no good evidence for a massive famine due to the dust bowl people lost their saving but few people died. A famine is different from a crop failure. Crop failures can help cause famines,but typically famines happen because political and/or economic failures. For example in cases of extreme authoritarianism(like the USSR and China - PRC) and colonialism(Ireland, Nepal). see http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert-famine.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert-...