subsistence crisis

{{Short description|Crisis which occurs when access to basic necessities are challenged}}

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A subsistence crisis affects individuals or communities unable to obtain basic necessities due to either man-made or natural factors such as inflation, drought or war."The European subsistence crisis of 1845–1850: a comparative perspective", http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers3/Vanhaute.pdf, 20 June 2012 Severe subsistence crises are considered famines. While John Meuvret first coined the term in France in 1946, economic historian Pierre Goubert popularized the concept during the 1960s with his study of economic inequality and mortality in Beauvais 1709–10.{{Cite book |last=Walter |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCERvGiMYdIC&dq=france+subsistence+crisis&pg=PA48 |title=Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society |last2=Schofield |first2=Roger |last3=Appleby |first3=Andrew B. |date=1991-04-26 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-40613-0 |language=en}}

A Subsistence crisis is an extreme situation where basic needs of livelihood are endangered. Subsistence crises affect individuals or communities unable to obtain basic necessities due to either man-made or natural factors such as inflation, drought or war.