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Jun 14, 2018 · We assembled famine chronologies related to nine macro-areas of the European continent: Britain, France, Germany (including Switzerland and Austria), Ireland, Italy, Low Countries, Nordic...
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In terms of more recent events, from the second half of the 20th century onwards, famines in Africa have become increasingly associated with civil war, and include a number of crises in places that were not previously prone to famines at all, such as Mozambique and Biafra in Nigeria.
Jan 24, 2009 · Famines were apparently eradicated from Asia and Europe during the twentieth century, but not from Africa, where three countries—Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger—have suffered mass mortality food crises since 2000. This paper locates the persistence of famine in Africa in simultaneous or sequential failures of food supply, demand for food, and ...
- Stephen Devereux
- s.devereux@ids.ac.uk
- 2009
Jul 18, 2018 · Figure 20.1 presents “drought” chronologies commencing in the sixteenth century for several African regions. These include Sahelian West Africa, the Cape Verde Islands, the Guinea Coast, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, coastal Angola, and the western Cape of South Africa (see also Fig. 20.2).
- Sharon E. Nicholson
- 2018
The chronol-ogy of European famines shown in Fig. 1 builds on a novel data-base reporting famine years for nine macro-areas (Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Low Countries, Nordic...
- Guido Alfani, Cormac Ó Gráda
- 2018
Jan 7, 2021 · This article maps out the state of the art in European famine heritage studies and, additionally, investigates what future directions famine heritage studies may take, and what questions require further exploration.
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May 24, 2022 · In East Africa, the 1883–1885 drought and famine was a key historical event, yet to be analyzed in depth. The drought had a devastating impact, coinciding with the beginnings of colonial rule, and foreshadowing the environmental collapse of the 1890s.
