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| Famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food
deprivation and food security are measured, from situations in
which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale
famine. The word "famine" has highly emotive and political
connotations and there has been extensive discussion among
international relief agencies offering food aid as to its exact
definition. Ambiguity about whether or not a famine is
occurring, and the lack of commonly agreed upon criteria by
which to differentiate food insecurity has prompted renewed
interest in offering precise definitions. As different levels of
food insecurity demand different types of response, there have
been various methods of famine measurement proposed to help
agencies determine the appropriate response. Measurement methods
Edit A tension that has existed in all attempts to define a
famine is between definitions of famine as an event an