食しょく糧りょう不ぶ足そく

noun

food shortage; food scarcity

Refers to a lack of sufficient food, often on a societal or regional scale.

• 戦せん争そうで深しん刻こくな食しょく糧りょう不ぶ足そくが起おきた。

  A serious food shortage occurred due to the war.

• 食しょく糧りょう不ぶ足そくを解かい決けつするために、新あたらしい農のう業ぎょう技ぎ術じゅつが必ひつ要ようだ。

  New agricultural technology is needed to solve the food shortage.