> Note that I'm not counting food shortages caused by active or recent warfare in either case, Surely the Ethiopian famine and the Cambodian famine could be di

> Note that I'm not counting food shortages caused by active or recent warfare in either case, Surely the Ethiopian famine and the Cambodian famine could be disregarded if you applied this rule consistently. And the Bengal famine is arguably something caused by a Western democracy that wasn't directly a result of the wartime conditions.