fr: Famine irlandaise de 1740-1741

) de Bary, the disease which led to the Great Irish Famine

fr: Famine des pommes de terre

fr: Famine au Bengale de 1943

fr: Famine de 1945 au Viêt Nam

fr: Famine de la pomme de terre dans les Highlands

fr: Famine soviétique de 1921-1922

In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", one of Singer's best-known philosophical essays, he argues that some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible.

Two were written during the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, while the third deals with the famine as a theme ( The Macdermots of Ballycloran, The Landleaguers, and Castle Richmond, respectively ).

The Kingston General Hospital site also held the remains of 1, 400 Irish immigrants who had died in Kingston in fever sheds along the waterfront, during the typhus epidemic of 1847, while fleeing the Great Famine.

In 2010 Britain failed to send a diplomatic representative to the opening of the National Famine Commemoration, while 14 other nations did.

The clearances in East Galway in the years immediately succeeding the Great Irish Famine adversely affected the trade of the town while the smaller industries were unable to compete against the highly organised industries of Britain.

Between 1301 and 1325 during the Great Famine it was 29. 84, while between 1348 and 1375, during the Black Death and subsequent plagues, it went down to only 17. 33.

In the years 1315 to 1317, a catastrophic famine, known as the Great Famine, struck much of northwest Europe.

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 ).

During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

The Upper Egyptian Famine Stela, dating from the Ptolemaic period, bears an inscription containing a legend about a famine of seven years during the reign of Djoser.

* The Famine in Ethiopia continues ; USA for Africa (" We Are the World ") and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.

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.

Thus the 1867 – 68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the Great North China Famine of 1877 – 78, caused by drought across northern China, was a catastrophe.

Other notable famines include the Great Famine of 1876 – 78, in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900, in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

An inscription known as the Famine Stela and claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but probably created during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, relates how Djoser rebuilt the temple of Khnum on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract, thus ending a seven-year famine in Egypt.

Although some believed the myth that Queen Victoria ( known in Ireland in later decades as the " Famine Queen ") had only donated a miserly £ 5 to famine relief, in fact the sum was £ 2, 000, the equivalent of £ 61, 000 today, from her personal resources.

A claim was made by a U. S. professor of law, Francis A. Boyle that the Famine was genocide by the British against the Irish, meaning that the famine was part of a deliberate policy of planned extermination.

A graph of the populations of Ireland and Europe indexed against 1750 showing the disastrous consequence of the Irish Potato Famine | 1845 – 49 potato famine.

Notable annual fasts include the famine events ( such as the 40 Hour Famine ) coordinated by World Vision to bring awareness to world poverty and hunger.

The Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study, carried out by the departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Internal Medicine of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the University of Southampton in Britain, found that the children of pregnant women exposed to famine were more susceptible to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, microalbuminuria and other health problems.

The Three Years of Great Chinese Famine (), referred to by the Communist Party of China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters or Three Years of Difficult Period ( or ) by the government, was the period in the People's Republic of China between the years 1958 and 1961 characterized by widespread famine.

" Dan Gardner, among others, has criticized him for endorsing the strategies to avoid the worst effects of famine that William and Paul Paddock proposed in their book Famine 1975!

Famine relief is an organized effort to reduce starvation in a region in which there is famine.

* Great Famine ( Ireland ), the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852

It is probable that some 8, 000-10, 000 famine victims are buried in the Famine Burial Pits of Abbeystrewery Cemetery.

There were major sheep and cattle murrains in Europe during the 14th century, which combined with the Little Ice Age resulted in widespread famine during the Great Famine of 1315-1317, weakening the population of Europe before the onset of the Black Death in 1348.

In December 2003, Kalturnyk published a work in Modern Communism entitled " The Famine that Never Was ", arguing that a famine did not occur in Ukraine in 1933 and 1934.

This, along with the spread of potato blight led to shortages and famine, the most notable instance being the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ), which more or less undid all the growth in population of the previous century.

For many years people lived in the village and then in 1845 Famine struck in Achill as it did in the rest of Ireland.

Famine later struck Germany, and Zapf's mother was grateful to send him to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by Herbert Hoover.

Famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990s, set off by unprecedented floods.

From 1820 to 1860, 1, 956, 557 Irish arrived, 75 % of these after the Great Irish Famine ( or The Great Hunger, ) of 1845 – 1852, struck.

Then disaster struck when the potato crop failed and the Great Irish Famine resulted.

The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 ( occasionally dated 1315 – 1322 ) was the first of a series of large scale crises that struck Northern Europe early in the fourteenth century.

Finally, the Great Famine would have consequences for future events in the fourteenth century such as the Black Death when an already weakened population would be struck again.

However, Lord Halifax was soon expressing concern that the repression was going too far: " so many People are directly or indirectly concerned in these illegal Practices and so many have been seized on Information or Suspicion, that in several Places, the Majority of the Inhabitants have been struck with the utmost Consternation, and have fled to the Mountains, insomuch that at this Season, from the almost general Flight of the labouring Hands, a Famine is, not without Reason, apprehended .".

The Highland Potato Famine was a famine caused by potato blight that struck the Scottish Highlands in the 1840s.