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Famine and Ethiopia
* Famine in Ethiopia begins and kills a million people by the end of 1984.
( 1984 Famine in Ethiopia ).
In July 2005, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network labelled Niger with emergency status, as well as Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe.
During the 1973 Wollo Famine in Ethiopia, food was shipped out of Wollo to the capital city of Addis Ababa, where it could command higher prices.
* Great Ethiopia Famine of 1888-1892
* 1984 Famine, Ethiopia
His first book, Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind The Famine ( 1988 ) contended the famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s was more complex than just drought and Cold War US foreign policy, pointing the blame instead to the collectivization carried out by the Mengistu regime.

Famine and continues
* Great Famine continues in Ireland
* Great Famine continues in Ireland.
Famine strikes Sub-Saharan African countries the hardest, but with exhaustion of food resources, overdrafting of groundwater, wars, internal struggles, and economic failure, famine continues to be a worldwide problem with hundreds of millions of people suffering.

Famine and ;
In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", he begins by saying that he would like to see how far a seemingly innocuous and widely endorsed principle can take us ; the principle is that one is morally required to forgo a small pleasure to relieve someone else's immense pain.
The city was a destination for thousands of Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine in the 1840s ; housing for them was developed south of South Street, and was later occupied by succeeding immigrants.
Collectivisation undermined incentives for the investment of labor and resources in agriculture ; unrealistic plans for decentralized metal production sapped needed labor ; unfavorable weather conditions ; and communal dining halls encouraged overconsumption of available food ( see Chang, G, and Wen, G ( 1997 ), " Communal dining and the Chinese Famine 1958-1961 " ).
Between 1774 and 1789, the detentions included 54 people accused of robbery ; 31 of involvement in the 1775 Famine Revolt ; 11 detained for assault ; 62 illegal editors, printers and writers – but relatively few detained over the grander affairs of state.
The situation changed during late 1845 with poor harvests and the Great Famine in Ireland ; Britain experienced scarcity and Ireland starvation.
George Kinder, a local resident, shipped bags of food to Ireland during its Great Famine ; these also contained his address, with ads saying that he was hiring immigrant workers.
; including the causal agent of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1849 )
* Famine is a widespread scarcity of food that may apply to any fauna species ; the phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
It may still have been too traumatic an experience ; the children of many Famine survivors were still alive, as indeed were some born during the Famine period.
Historians re-examined all aspects of the Famine experience ; from practical issues like the number of deaths and emigrants, to the long-term impact it had on society, sexual behaviour, land holdings, property rights and the entire Irish identity.
He acted in various strolling companies until 1778, when he produced The Crisis ; or, Love and Famine, at Drury Lane.
Hayes ' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine ; her mother was a great-niece of Irish singer Catherine Hayes.
It appears to your Committee that pursuant to the Plan concerted by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the King and Parliament of Great Britain have usurped a Power over the Persons and Properties of the People unlimited and uncontrouled ; and disregarding their humble Petitions for Peace, Liberty and safety, have made divers Legislative Acts, denouncing War Famine and every Species of Calamity against the Continent in General.
Hansom designed around 200 buildings, including Birmingham Town Hall ; Arundel Cathedral ; Oxford Oratory ; Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth ; St George's Catholic Church in York ; Mount St Mary's Catholic Church, the ' Famine Church ' in Leeds ; St Walburge's Church in Preston ( with the tallest church spire in England ); St Beuno's Jesuit Theologate in North Wales ( 1848 ); St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford ; the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester ( 1871 ); The Roman Catholic Plymouth Cathedral ( built 1856 — 1858 ); and St Mary's Priory, Fulham Road ( 1876 ).

Famine and USA
Inspired by the death of Latimer's father, he and Hoover then wrote Harbour of Tears ( nickname for Cobh ( pronounced ' cove ') harbour in Ireland from which many sailed off to the USA during the Potato Famine ) under the Camel name, which was released in 1996.

Famine and for
Millions of Irish diaspora | Irish left Ireland for Canada and U. S. following the Great Famine ( Ireland ) | Great Famine in the 1840s.
In the 19th century, as Ireland was facing the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ), crochet lace work was introduced as a form of famine relief ( the production of crocheted lace being an alternative way of making money for impoverished Irish workers ).
Famine Intensity and Magnitude Scales: A Proposal for an Instrumental Definition of Famine.
Douglass set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool on August 16, 1845, and arrived in Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine was beginning.
Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.
In a quest for family roots, he attempted to trace his great grandmother – Brita Gallagher – who set sail from Ireland 150 years ago during the Great Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ), bound for a new life in Burlington, New Jersey.
The persistently cold, wet weather caused great hardship, was primarily responsible for the Great Famine of 1315 – 1317, and strongly contributed to the weakened immunity and malnutrition leading up to the Black Death ( 1348 – 1350 ).
Famine caused a great number of deaths in the late ' 90s, and North Korea would gain a reputation for being a large source of money laundering, counterfeiting, and weapons proliferation.
* July 31 – The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief ( OXFAM ) is founded.
In Brian Stableford's The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, for example, the Horsemen are listed as Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death.
The observations of the Famine Commission of 1880 support the notion that food distribution is more to blame for famines than food scarcity.
Strokestown Park House and Famine Museum is an award-winning museum for its portrayal of the great Irish Famine.

Famine and Africa
* Africa Data Dissemination Service, part of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, U. S. Geological Service
They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf ( RNID ), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Star ’ s Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross ( by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match ), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal ( by Celtic v Manchester United football match ), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund ( SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims ), World Food Programme ( WFP ), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Children ’ s Hospice South West ( by Truro charity football match ), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign.
The Black Death in Europe, the arrival of Old World diseases to the Americas, the tsetse fly invasion of the Waterberg Massif in South Africa, and the Great Irish Famine all caused sizable population declines.
Other one-off projects have included: a Peace Pack, a resource kit for anti-nuclear-weapons campaigners ; a book to mark the end of the UN Decade for Women in 1985 and a television film for the UK's Channel 4 about women and food production in Africa ( Man-Made Famine ).
He also authored and managed the passage of the African Famine Recovery and Development Act, -- a comprehensive rewrite in the 1980s of America's approach to development assistance in Africa that included the creating the African Development Fund.
Since then, the British Red Cross has provided relief to people worldwide, including during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in Vietnam in 1976, Famine in Africa in the 1980s and the Colombia Earthquake of 1999.

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