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A famine. (or perhaps a biblical famine).
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What are the characteristics of scarcity?
Scarcity is limited resources of land, labor, and capital. When there is scarcity it leads to giving up wants in order to have what is needed. Sometimes giving up needs in trade for another need is required to survive the scarce resources.
Scarcity refers to?
Scarcity refers to a very small supply of something. For example for people who are homeless they have a scarce supply of food. Scarcity also means the rarity of occurrence or appearance.
Scarcity in the Philippines?
Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 caused a scarcity of food and clean water in the Philippines. Electricity also became scarce in parts of the country.
What crop might be scarce?
An extended period of bad weather may cause a food crop to rot in the fields. This could mean that a crop, if over a large area, would become a scarcity locally. If a crop is scarce, the price in the shop is likely to rise. The other extreme is when a glut means the price will drop. Nowadays, with export and import of food produce from many foreign counties, scarcity of a single item has less effect.
How could unlimited wants and limited resources be called?
Scarcity
What is a extreme scarcity of food?
Famine
What is an extreme scarcity of water called?
DROUGHT
What do you call a period with no food?
The period with scarcity of food is called 'famine'
What is the time when people starve because so little food called?
It's called a famine, that is, a widespread scarcity of food.
Which country has problems of scarcity?
Somalia has scarcity of water food and medicine
Why ancient Greece had scarcity?
it had a scarity because in the begining of Greece they did not have much food that's why they had a scarcity
What are the characteristics of scarcity?
Scarcity is limited resources of land, labor, and capital. When there is scarcity it leads to giving up wants in order to have what is needed. Sometimes giving up needs in trade for another need is required to survive the scarce resources.
What is scarcity called in Telugu?
Korata.
Scarcity refers to?
Scarcity refers to a very small supply of something. For example for people who are homeless they have a scarce supply of food. Scarcity also means the rarity of occurrence or appearance.
What is the difference between poverty and scarcity?
poverty applies to people (lacking in wealth or lacking in the basic necessities to sustain life). scarity applies to resources. (lacking in amount or in supply) a person is impoverished. there can be a scarcity of food. a person is not scarcity. food is not impovershied.
Why is arctic regions sparsely populated?
population density is low in polar regions because the climate is too cold and harsh for people and it has no perminant residents.
What is the scarcity of food?
Food scarcity could be caused from many things. Farmers not getting enough rain to grow crops so they can harvest them and make a profit by sending them to stores. Or animals like cows for instance could have a disease causing manufactures to recall the meat. Food scarcity has been a problem for years we as the Americans just haven't found out how to fix it.
