That's a logical fallacy. Population growth can outgrow food supply thanks to high fertility and access to better hygiene and medical treatment from outside combined with a lack of birth control. So you would still see population growth, but a growing fraction of this population could be malnourished.

That being said, the most common reason is simply war. If you look at the famine in Sudan right now, it is a direct consequence of the civil war (which also happens to be the biggest and bloodiest war by far in the world right now). Lost crops from weather or diseases can also restrict local food production, but it only ever really turns into a problem when armed groups prevent outside food supplies from moving to affected areas like the military in Sudan does right now.

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pfannkuchen 3 days ago | parent [-]

You are telling me that every infomercial I’ve ever seen about starving children in Africa was from war? How often are these people at war?

	▲	sigmoid10 a day ago \| parent [-]
		>How often are these people at war? More often than people like you realise apparently. But it's not really your fault. If you only consume western news, you might believe that Ukraine or Israel are the worst wars of our time. But that's only because western news doesn't really report on the current situation in Sudan at all, despite it being much, much worse than anything else that's been going on in the world recently.