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

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

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

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors drought, crop production, food prices and other indicators in order to forecast food insecurity in more than 30 countries. Funded by ...

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 ...

“This is Mostrim” is a trilogy, commencing with The Famine. Set at the onset of the potato blight the work is a fictional ...

It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...