Starvation was a deficiency of food.
As claimed by their Empress, the Racnoss were born starving. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
As noted by the Fifth Doctor, starvation caused the extinction of the dinosaurs after an object crashed to Earth. (TV: Earthshock)
On Archbishop Arundel's orders, Richard II was denied food while in captivity in Pomfret Castle. As a result, he starved to death in 1400. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)
As a result of the Great Depression, there were people starving in Manhattan. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
Jack Harkness revealed to the Tenth Doctor that starvation was the cause of at least one of his many deaths on Earth. (TV: Utopia)
In an alternate timeline, the survivors of World War III suffered from starvation. (TV: Day of the Daleks)