Famine (19902 bytes)
1: A '''famine''' is an phenomenon in which a large percentage o...
2: ...mic and political circumstances leading to modern famine has emerged.
4: ... no functioning [[democracy]] has ever suffered a famine.
6: == Characteristics of Famine ==
8: === Ongoing famines or threatening famines ===

Cotton famine (930 bytes)
1: The '''cotton famine''' ([[1861]] - [[1865]]) was a depression in the ...

Famine sceptics (474 bytes)
1: ...ine Sceptics''' are historians who argue that the famines alleged to have occurred in the [[Soviet Union|U...

Ethiopian famine (3056 bytes)
1: ...and governmental destabilization have caused such famines in the late 20th and early 21st century, most no...
13: == 1984 famine ==
15: ...]] and [[1985]]. [[BBC news]] reports brought the famine to public attention, and [[Live Aid]], a fund-rai...
21: ...ns his country could be worse than the [[1984]] [[famine]].
24: ...r funds for Ethiopia to prevent a new outbreak of famine.

Famine relief (6469 bytes)
7: ... it came to be called, saw inadequate attempts at famine relief from both government and private sources. ...
9: ...rvests in the [[Soviet Union]] in [[1932]] led to famine there too.
11: A major factor the Irish and Soviet famines have in common is the impact of enforced economi...
13: ...942]] a British charity, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (later called [[Oxfam]]) was set up to hig...
17: ...Square Garden]] to raise money for [[Bangladesh]] famine relief. More than 40,000 people attended.

Dutch famine of 1944 (946 bytes)
4: * http://home.ust.hk/~lbcaplan/dutchfamine.html
9: [[Category:Famines]]

Bengal famine of 1943 (1279 bytes)
1: ...malnutrition]] and related illnesses during the [[famine]].
8: *Padmanabhan, S.Y. ''The Great Bengal Famine''. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 11:11-24, 197...
11: [[Category:Famines]]

Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1188 bytes)
1: ...f the affluent to donate some of their money to [[famine relief]]. One of the core arguments in the essay ...
7: * [http://www.petersingerlinks.com/famine.htm Famine, Affluence, and Morality]

Great Famine (disambiguation) (241 bytes)
1: ...cal events that refer to themselves as the "Great Famine".
3: ...[[Great Famine of 1315-1317]] - Northern European famine of the 14th century.
4: *[[Irish Potato Famine]] - 19th century.

Irish Famine of 1740-41 (998 bytes)
1: ... death rate in 1740-41 was similar to that of the famine a century later, namely that ten per cent of the ...

Irish potato famine (29004 bytes)
1: ...et O'Donnel.jpg|thumb|200px|Starvation during the famine]]
2: ...y population. The immediate after-effects of The Famine continued until [[1851]], and in the five years f...
4: ...lture and tradition up to today. The Irish Potato Famine was the culmination of a social, biological, poli...
6: ...icultural]] and [[demographic]] dimensions of the famine, first by discussing the place of the potato in t...
16: ...n's Industrial Revolution. The time of the Potato Famine coincided with the era of [[Pax Britannica]] betw...

Irish potato famine (legacy) (12300 bytes)
1: ==The Political & Cultural Impact of the Famine==
5: ...ewart Parnell]], nearly forty years ''after'' the Famine, that a major Irish nationalist political movemen...
7: ...f the Famine, was hardly impacted upon ''by'' the Famine, as much as by the clash between the 'catholic na...
9: ...'it'' had been the party of government during the Famine! A large body of voters continued to vote for [[U...
11: ...ated a miserly £5 or even £0,5,0 (5 shillings) to famine relief; In fact it was the modern day equivalent ...

Great Famine of 1315-1317 (10121 bytes)
1: The '''Great Famine of 1315-1317''' (or to 1322) was the first of a s...
5: [[Image:Irish potato famine Bridget O'Donnel.jpg|thumb|left|]]
7: ....28 years. Between 1301 and 1325 during the Great Famine it was 29.84 while between 1348-1375 during the p...
9: The Great Famine was restricted to Northern Europe,from Russia in ...
11: The seeds of the famine had been sleeping in changing weather patterns fo...

Charles Trevelyan (463 bytes)
5: ...Irish Famine]], and responsible for administering famine relief. Later he was a [[civil service]] reformer...

Cappamore (510 bytes)
1: ...t particularly badly in the [[Irish potato famine|famine years]], with the population of the parish area b...

Redhouse (689 bytes)
1: ... a higher than average survival rate during the [[famine]] for the area. Although the village is named "Re...

Oxfam (2279 bytes)
1: ...land]] in [[1942]] as the '''Oxford Committee for Famine Relief''' by [[Theodore Richard Milford|Canon The...
6: ==Famine relief==
8: ...s, developed strategies against the ''causes'' of famine. In addition to food and medicine Oxfam also prov...
10: Oxfam today, in addition to traditional famine relief, works on these issues:

Skibbereen (2033 bytes)
4: ...ome 8,000-10,000 Famine victims are buried in the Famine Burial Pits of Abbeystrewery Cemetry.
10: ...ed so well. The father relates to his son how the famine ruined his farm in Skibbereen, and killed his wif...

Three Fs (878 bytes)
7: ...severely to the [[Irish potato famine|Great Irish Famine]] (1846-49), as it allowed the mass eviction of s...

Ilyas (1477 bytes)
7: ...t to be true and whole of the kingdom experienced famine.
9: ...ee years Ilyas prayed to God to show mercy to the famine stricken people. They acknowledged the authority...

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