DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

Kenya relies on USAid famine warning system – what happens now that it’s gone?

Airdrops like this are a slender life line in a rugged and inhospitable region where famine has already been ... their bodies – a marker of damage caused by malnourishment.

“It has left deep scars…[it] is something that still causes pain as we reflect ... were written specifically for the Great Famine Event. The evening opened in a contemporary vein with Maighread ...

Reflections on resilience: Achill Island in the 1950s was a place where survival depended on resourcefulness, hard work, and ...

to which Savannah has a special connection since more than half of Georgia’s Irish emigrants traveled here from Wexford in the mid-1800s during the potato famine. In fact, most of the interior of the ...

For 14-year-old Joseph travelling with his father to Ireland and seeing the appalling effects of the Great Famine ... potato crop which would normally feed about 60% of the population failed. Lack of ...

This article set out to explain the basis on which famine is declared, using the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), with reference to the situations in Gaza and Sudan.

CAIRO/DUBAI - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp, residents and medics say, as the paramilitary tries to tighten its grip on its Darfur ...