Complex sentence: The famine disrupted and overwhelmed large segments of the economy and social fabric, accelerating pre-existing socioeconomic processes generating poverty and income inequality; among those who survived, millions of families were economically ruined.
Split into simpler sentences: The famine disrupted and overwhelmed large segments of the economy and social fabric, accelerating pre-existing socioeconomic processes generating poverty and income inequality. Among those who survived, millions of families were economically ruined.