Difference between Shortage and Famine

SHORTAGE vs FAMINE: NOUN

An acute insufficiency
A deficiency in amount; an insufficiency.
A deficit; deficiency; the amount by which anything is short.
Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard.
A lack or deficiency
Not enough, not sufficient
The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
An acute insufficiency
A drastic shortage; a dearth.
Severe hunger; starvation.
Extreme appetite.
Scarcity or destitution of food; a general want of provision or supply; extreme dearth, threatening or resulting in starvation: often used by extension with reference to the want or scarcity of material things other than food, and, figuratively, of immaterial things.
Synonyms Dearth, etc. See scarcity.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Typhus fever.
Extreme shortage of food in a region
During times of famine
A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.

Availability, Crisis, Bottleneck, Scarce, Lack, Problem, Unavailability, Supply, Paucity, Crunch, Scarcity, Deficit, Famine, Shortfall, Dearth

Calamity, Destitution, Pestilence, Malnutrition, Appetite, Fame, Stricken, Terror, Starve, Hungry, Starving, Hunger, Starvation, Dearth, Shortage

Constraint, Deficiency, Availability, Crisis, Scarce, Lack, Problem, Unavailability, Supply, Paucity, Crunch, Deficit, Famine, Shortfall, Dearth

Desertification, Calamity, Destitution, Pestilence, Malnutrition, Appetite, Fame, Stricken, Terror, Starve, Hungry, Starving, Hunger, Starvation, Dearth

Many companies are facing a shortage of talent.
Unfortunately, there is a shortage of skilled farmers.
Do we really have a shortage of doctors or do we have a shortage of services?
We examined agreement and disagreement between bounded shortage areas and GISbased shortage areas.
So there was no shortage of testimony, and no shortage of witnesses in this case.
Rapidly changing technology and a shortage of skilled laboratory professionals has resulted in a shortage for this field.
There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people thinking big enough.
But AE middle grade doctors shortage and Consultant shortage is killing us and our performance.
Banks may borrow funds through MSF during severe cash shortage or acute shortage of liquidity.
If you have a shortage, report this daily until the shortage is resolved.

Teachers may want to refer to the activities Heroes of the Great Irish Famine New Yorkers Provide Relief During the Great Irish Famine.
Evidence of the Irish Famine still exists including a workhouse, whose buildings are now part of the local hospital, and a famine grave.
Perhaps the Lord would bring a partial famine on us; perhaps a famine would come upon our neighbors.
First, manually activate the Black Eye, Famine, Fog, Grunt Birthday Party, Famine, and Iron skulls in the lobby and set the difficulty to Heroic.
There was a great famine there, and we have to this day a proverb which speaks of famine as in Rodnya.
Despite repeated stated intentions by the world's leaders to end hunger and famine, famine remains a chronic threat in much of Africa and Asia.
What is the effect of a mass of marchers walking purposefully Doolough Famine Walk symbol to famine suffering.
There was no Eritrean famine then, it was The Ethiopian Famine.
State Sponsored Famine: Conceptualizing Politically Induced Famine as a Crime Against Humanity.
The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics and Foreign Policy.