Agricultural societies are ravaged by famine when drought, fire or earthquake devastates the annual rice or potato crop. Forager societies were hardly immune to natural disasters, and suffered from periods of want and hunger, but they were usually able to deal with such calamities more easily. If they lost some of their staple foodstuffs, they could gather or hunt other species, or move to a less affected area.
What?
Is the author saying agriculture made people more susceptible to starvation due to disaster/drought/famine? Being able to mass produce more food and preserve that food for a longer period of time?
