There was no developed world at that point. Pointing later developments backwards into history like that is tricky, makes things seem inevitable or causally linked when they are neither.
Anyway though that's barely relevant. IIRC in most modern famines the starving areas continued to export food, which is a large part of why some historians have shifted to viewing famine as a political phenomenon caused by food shortages.
I think the dying of illness thing is also typical. It's actually kind of hard for an adult to starve to death, but malnutrition fucks you up bad and famines also cause large scale human migration and concentration, creating more opportunity for disease. There's a reason famine and epidemics are closely linked in historical memory.
There was a series of "world droughts" caused by el nino in the late 1800s. Famines killed like 40 million people in 30 years then. They coincided with and were arguably directly caused by the emergence of the global market system. So I think you're correct, long-distance market forces are basically the defining attribute of a modern famine.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse get various names. Sometimes they are listed as War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.
I imagine that's sort of a meme in the collective unconscious of humanity for a reason. In localized "end times," those four things tend to be associated and even intertwined.
Anyway though that's barely relevant. IIRC in most modern famines the starving areas continued to export food, which is a large part of why some historians have shifted to viewing famine as a political phenomenon caused by food shortages.
I think the dying of illness thing is also typical. It's actually kind of hard for an adult to starve to death, but malnutrition fucks you up bad and famines also cause large scale human migration and concentration, creating more opportunity for disease. There's a reason famine and epidemics are closely linked in historical memory.
There was a series of "world droughts" caused by el nino in the late 1800s. Famines killed like 40 million people in 30 years then. They coincided with and were arguably directly caused by the emergence of the global market system. So I think you're correct, long-distance market forces are basically the defining attribute of a modern famine.