dearth

puute A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
puhekieltä scarcity Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:

I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.