荒歉

huāng qiàn zhī nián

荒歉之年

lean year

lián nián huāng qiàn

连年荒歉

successive years of famine failure

yīn wèi huāng qiàn shí wù jià gé bào zhǎng

因为荒歉，食物价格暴涨。

Food prices soared because of famine.