The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Unpredictable Crop Yields Extreme weather events, like frost, drought, and heavy rainfall, are becoming more common and have ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. ..

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday ...

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...

Prairie wheat growers could be getting poor control of fusarium head blight because they’re applying fungicides too early.

Famine can stem from natural causes such as droughts, floods, earthquakes and plant disease. It can also stem from man-made causes such as wars, civil disturbances and deliberate crop destruction.