This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the Atlantic Ocean to escape this famine. In 1841, Ireland had ...

A 1923 American Relief Administration film, “America’s Gift to Famine Stricken Russia,” tracks the path of food aid to the Soviet Union, where citizens were suffering a third year of severe ...

That's not right. Conflict, climate change, and bad policy all play a role in creating the right conditions for hunger and famine. One in five people in Africa do not have access to adequate food, and ...

North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen ... from South America to North ...

Julian Cribb’s The Coming Famine takes the position that a global food shortage is inevitable if the human race does not soon rethink the way it eats, farms, and fishes. Setting aside the inevitable ...

Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen ... into and out of South America, and the migrations into and ...