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	The Great Irish Famine
		The export of livestock to Britain (with the exception of pigs) increased during the "famine".
		During the worst months of the famine, in the winter of 1846-47, tens of thousands of tenants fell in arrears of rent and were evicted from their homes.
		The corn crops, bountiful as they may be, are not sufficient to meet the landlords' claim for rent and arrears contracted during the last two years of famine, and it is at least not unnatural for the tenant to be unwilling to give up that, without which he must certainly perish.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/irish_pf.html (16021 words)

	Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Famine is associated with naturally-occurring crop failure and pestilence and artificially with war and genocide.
		Famine is sometimes used as a tool of repressive governments as a means to eliminate opponents, as in the Ukrainian Famine of the 1930s.
		The Great Famine of 1315-1317 (or to 1322) was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century, millions in northern Europe would die over an extended number of years, marking a clear end to the earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th and 12th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famine (4444 words)

	Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Famine was at least fifty years in the making, and due to the disastrous interaction of British economic policy, destructive farming methods, and the unfortunate appearance of "the Blight" —the potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority population.
		The Famine is often seen as an initiator in the steep depopulation of Ireland in the 19th century; however, it is likely that real population began to fall in 1841 with the Famine accelerating any population changes already occurring.
		Some may argue the Famine was necessary to restore population equilibrium to Ireland given that population increased by 13-14% in the first three decades of the 19th century (using Thomas Malthus's idea of population expanding geometrically, resources increasing arithmetically) nonetheless there is a tendency among Irish historians to dispute this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_potato_famine (4565 words)

	Famine page
		Famines are occurring in several parts of Africa.
		Iraq is facing famine following the destruction of power supplies during the Gulf war and a failure to plant crops in land where the Kurds have been driven from their villages.
		All European peoples faced famine during and immediately after the second world war when imports were impossible and governments then determined on policies to prevent any future dependence on imports.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/problems/famine.html (965 words)

	Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A famine is an phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are undernourished and death by starvation becomes increasingly common.
		Famine was so well known in the ancient world that Famine was one of the biblical Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
		The first area in Europe to eliminate famine was the Netherlands, which saw its last peacetime famines in the early 17th century as it became a major economic power and established a complex political organization.
	famine.ask.dyndns.dk (2777 words)

	Chinese Famine of 1958-1961
		As an example, about 5 million people died during a famine in the 1940s exacerbated by civil war and the policies of the nationalist KMT (1).
		Although the result of instituting Lysenko's pseudoscience and Stalin's collectivization techniques caused a famine that killed millions in the USSR, Mao and other Chinese Communists were enamored of Stalin and insisted on replicating the Soviet experience in China (apparently against the advice of the Kruschev and other Soviet officials).
		Unlike previous famines which had been localized to one or another region of the country, the famine of 1958-61 struck the entire country.
	www.overpopulation.com /faq/health/hunger/famine/chinese_famine.html (1110 words)

	Latest Famine News
		The resettlement of people from famine stricken areas to those that are more food secure is having adverse impacts and in some areas reached crisis point, due to a lack of organisation and preparation.
		Vulnerability to famine has been generated by the oppression and exploitation of the peasants by despotic regimes and unfavourable market forces (Addis Tribune, 25 April, 2003).
		According to the Famine Early Warning System Networks (FEWSNET) the problem is likely to be long lasting since the areas planted during the last season was less than 50% of the average cultivated in recent years.
	www.ucc.ie /famine/Latest/latest.html (12604 words)

	Famine Cottage - Slea Head Drive - The Dingle Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		During the era of the Famine a pig was kept within it's small confines.
		During the Famine years holdings were either too small or due to penal laws, Catholics would have to pay taxes to be allowed the privilege of owning farm animals.
		They were all laid to rest just a few hundred yards from the cottage where a simple but crude stone cross marks their grave.
	www.faminecottage.com (1219 words)

	Ukraine Famine
		An artificial famine of devastating proportions was the culmination of a savage piece of human engineering designed to eliminate an economic class that the Communists viewed as their fierce opponents.
		She said by the beginning of that year, famine was so widespread people had been reduced to eating grass, tree bark, roots, berries, frogs, birds, and even earthworms.
		For scores of senior Ukrainian Communists, the famine and Stalin's attack on the Ukrainian cultural revival were cause for their final disillusionment with the ideology they had served.
	www.faminegenocide.com /resources/ukraine_famine.html (3898 words)

	The Irish Famine
		A contemporary comment was that "God sent the blight, but the English made the famine: and to some extent this was true because the governments of both Peel and Lord John Russell did little to help the Irish population.
		The blight destroyed the potato crop of 1845 and by the early autumn of that year it was clear that famine was imminent in Ireland.
		These statistics give some indication of the scale of the disaster but since many of those affected by the famine lived in remote and inaccessible places, it is more than possible that far more people died that has ever been thought.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/famine.html (698 words)

	The Great Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Great Famine, also known as the Potato Famine, The Great Hunger and An Gota Mor, reduced the population of Ireland by three million people, or 36%, during the middle of the 19th century.
		While the famine was initiated by a potato blight, its actual causes are rooted much deeper in the economic system in place at the time and the attitude of the English to the people of Ireland.
		This famine and the resultant deaths were due to a natural disaster worsened by English policies, policies which were tailored to the needs of English businesses and the general well-being of the English public at the expense of the Irish.
	www.irishclans.com /articles/greatfamine.html (1095 words)

	NK Missions - The World Network for North Korea Missions
		Perhaps the greatest human catastrophe of our generation has claimed more lives than the famines in Ethiopia and Somalia combined, yet many are unaware of this ongoing disaster.
		An estimated 2-5 million people (out of 22 million) have died in a devastating famine in North Korea since it began in the mid-1990s.
		North Korean refugees we talked to said that at the height of the famine in 1997, there weren't enough coffins for all the dead.
	www.nkmissions.com /report2.php?id=25_0_17_0_C (801 words)

	History of the Irish Potato Famine - Victory Heirloom Seeds
		To the Irish, famine of this magnitude was unprecedented and unimaginable.
		Ireland's famine and those of the 20th century have similar, complex causes: economic and political factors, environmental conditions, and questionable agricultural practices.
		When the famine hit in 1845, the Irish had grown potatoes for over 200 years--since the South American plant had first arrived in Ireland.
	www.victoryseeds.com /news/irish_famine.html (838 words)

	Strokestown Park House - the Famine Museum
		The Great Irish famine of the 1840's is now regarded as the single greatest social disaster of 19th century Europe.
		The Famine Museum uses the unique documents that were discovered in the estate office, dealing with the administration of the estate during the tenure of the Mahon family.
		The Famine Museum was opened in 1994 by the then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and she said 'More than anything else, this Famine Museum shows us that history is not about power or triumph nearly so often as it is about suffering and vulnerability'.
	www.strokestownpark.ie /museum.html (303 words)

	The Artificial Famine/Genocide in Ukraine 1932-33
		A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33.
		The main goal of this artificial famine was to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into collectivization.
		The famine was also used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occuring under approval of the communist government in Ukraine.
	www.infoukes.com /history/famine (336 words)

	Famine
		While some famines are caused by drought or other so-called natural disasters, children are more likely to be starving because of man's inhumanity to man--war,
		Such as the insurmountable debt many developing countries' owe to international creditors who enticed them to take out huge loans and are now holding the debtor nations in economic slavery, extracting exorbitant interest rates that ensure that the poor grow poorer and the rich lenders grow richer.
		Famines are largely a result of Man's corruption and greed and unwillingness to care for others.
	www.countdown.org /armageddon/famine.htm (320 words)

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		The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing - bronze sculpture commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Irish Famine as well as Irish immigration to the U.S. Kingston Irish Famine Commemoration Association - group of local volunteers dedicated to researching Kingston's role in the Irish Famine.
		Boston Irish Famine Memorial - tribute to an entire generation of Irish men, women, and children whose lives were disrupted by a series of events that comprised The Irish Famine.
		Strokestown Park House and The Irish Famine Museum - the famine museum uses a combination of original documents and images from the Strokestown collection to explain the circumstances of the Irish Famine.
	www.kclibrary.org /guides/education/index.cfm?article=read&articleID=169 (449 words)

	Ukrainian Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization.
		Thus, the famine was accompanied by a devastating purge of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and the Ukrainian Communist party itself.
		According to a Soviet author, "Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings." Yet one of Stalin's lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success.
	www.ibiblio.org /expo/soviet.exhibit/famine.html (374 words)

	The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
		These works blamed the famine on politics, typically claiming that Soviet leaders planned the famine to satisfy genocidal desires to punish the Ukrainians for their nationalist aspirations.10 More recent works on the famine, however, have explained the famine in economic terms, as the final battle in a drawn-out war over grain harvests.
		Contrary to political interpretations of the famine coverage, contemporary accounts often recognized that rapid modernization was a core element of the famine itself.
		Arguing that there were shortages but no famine, Fischer declared in another speech that the Russian peasant would endure such hardships "as long as the fulfillment of his objective is visible to the naked eye, in the form of industrial achievement." Upon his return to Russia later that summer, Fischer's story changed only slightly.
	www.artukraine.com /famineart/westobservs.htm (15765 words)

	The Great North Korean Famine: U.S. Institute of Peace Press Catalog Online: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		A terrible famine struck the most reclusive society on earth in 1994.
		In the search for answers, Natsios supplements the scanty store of published sources by drawing on the testimony of thousands of refugees, on thousands of e-mails he received while heading an NGO effort to aid the victims, and on his own encounters with officials from North Korea as well as from Western governments.
		The picture he presents is a disturbing one: human misery on a biblical scale, a paranoid regime that sacrificed its own citizens to ideological rigidity and pride, and foreign governments that subordinated humanitarian im-pulses to political and diplomatic interests.
	www.usip.org /pubs/catalog/greatnkf.html (328 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: The North Korea Famine -- August 26, 1997
		Their defection, although not directly tied to the famine, was yet another example of the tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive communist nation.
		Although reports of wide-spread famine began coming out last summer, it was not until this summer that the reclusive communist nation allowed the United Nations and other groups to begin relief work.
		Ted Yamamori, president of Food for the Hungry, criticized the reaction by wealthier countries during a trip to the affected areas.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html (793 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Cottoning on to unfair trade
		World warned it must do better as 20m face threat of famine in Africa
		Famine in Africa: Silently, Malawi begins to starve
		Rudolf Amenga-Etego, from the Integrated Social Development Centre, a thinktank based in Accra, Ghana, said that free trade does not necessarily mean fair trade.
	www.guardian.co.uk /famine/story/0,12128,998666,00.html (1022 words)

	Ukraine Famine, Famine in Ukraine, Ukraine Food, Stalin's Famine
		It was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of a famine and thus to refuse any outside assistance.
		The Soviets bolstered their famine denial by duping members of the foreign press and international celebrities through carefully staged photo opportunities in the Soviet Union and the Ukraine.
		The sensational show trial that followed was actually a cynical ruse to deflect the attention of foreign journalists from the famine.
	www.unitedhumanrights.org /Genocide/Ukraine_famine.htm (2003 words)

	1984: Great Famine
		Victim of Ethiopian Famine A young victim of the famine in Ethiopia struggles to recover under the car of a relief organization at a tented village in northern Somalia.
		Famine An emaciated child sits, covered with flies, at a red cross refugee camp in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984-1985.
		Refugee Camp A child sits on a bench at a refugee camp in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984-1985 which affected 150 million inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.angelfire.com /ak/sellassie/1984.html (1319 words)

	The Great Irish Famine Curriculum
		The HTML format allows you to examine the curriculum, print the curriculum.
		The pdf format allows you to examine the curriculum, print the curriculum and save the curriculum in its original format (contains page breaks).
		NOTE: The curriculum in pdf format will NEED to have Adobe Acrobat Reader loaded on your machine in order for you to be able to read it.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish_famine.html (264 words)

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