The weight of evidence suggests that this was a major economic disaster which significantly hindered China’s agriculture. Although it could be argued that by itself the Great Leap Forward could not have caused such a great disaster. There is no denial that it was the single biggest cause which led to the economic collapse of China and brought famine across the country...
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There were many factors of the Great Leap Forward that were of a major importance to the cause of the famine: -During the Great leap forward, Mao advocated of collectivisation, as a result all peasant land were seized by the government and the cultivation of private plots were forbidden. This forced collectivization substantially reduced the incentives for peasants to work well, and as a result peasants in communes nationwide had become “slack and lazy” , this is because there was no longer an incentive to work as peasants will be paid the same amount regardless of how hard they had worked during the year...
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poverty People in a country that has a communist government are equal as the leader is seen as a ‘father’ who owns all the property in society, so there shouldn’t be any rich or poor...	4 / 851
famine Later on famine and starvation were present, for example, in the book of Exodus where Joseph is warned of the years where there will be plenty and the years of starvation...	6 / 1425
causes of the great chinese famine The weight of evidence suggests that this was a major economic disaster which significantly hindered China’s agriculture. Although it could be argued that by itself the Great Leap Forward could not have caused such a great disaster...	6 / 1678
sahel The difference between the dry north with higher levels of soil-nutrients and the wetter south is utilized so that the herds graze on high quality feed in the North during the wet season, and trek several hundred kilometers down to the south, to graze on more abundant, but less nutritious feed during the dry period...	2 / 486