Late blight is a fungal disease that affects potatoes and tomatoes, and can cause widespread crop destruction. The disease hasn’t yet been reported in Maine, but spores were detected across Aroostook ...

Early summer’s rainy, humid weather created exactly the sort of conditions suitable for the spread of potato blight ...

Copa has warned of "complete deadlock" if the commission does not make more crop protection substances and methods available ...

The Zeeks, Everments and others were beggared refugees from hunger in Germany’s Palatinate in the early 1700s with few skills ...

Failure of the potato crop evoked horrific memories for some who had lived through the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s ...

There Irish famineknown in the Gaelic language as An gorta mór and in English as Great Irish Faminehit Ireland between ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

From RTÉ Radio 1's Countrywide, how Brexit has played a part in the rise of new strains of potato blight. While growers already use weather data and moisture conditions to predict if blight is ...

In Uganda, potato blight can destroy up to 100% of a farmer’s crop, endangering livelihoods and local food security. Just as in the Irish famine, dependence on a single crop is risky.

Many smallhold farmers lack resources for intensive disease management. In Uganda, potato blight can destroy up to 100% of a farmer’s crop, endangering livelihoods and local food security. Just as in ...

The blight pathogen destroyed the potato crop, reducing the vegetable to an inedible mess, “but the famine—a complex ecological, economic, logistical, and political disaster—was,” Scanlan ...

Fintan O’Toole on a new book by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan about the potato blight, its death toll, and the response by England.