Famine books

This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It...  Read More >>

A description of how the potato famine affected the livelyhood of thousands of people and resulted in the loss of...  Read More >>

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Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh....  Read More >>

This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed....  Read More >>

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Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines around the globe in the last third of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

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Hunger is the worst form of deprivation. These papers throw light on the possibility for achieving freedom from...  Read More >>

Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to contribute towards an improved understanding for more effective food...  Read More >>

Global food production has doubled since the 1960s, growing faster than the population, and will likely keep pace...  Read More >>

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Based on a wide selection of resources, this record of the Great Famine provides a graphic picture of conditions...  Read More >>

Changes that have occurred in food availability, production and selection around the world raise questions about...  Read More >>

This book describes a project among small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe...  Read More >>

What do we know about the origins and extent of the North Korean famine of 1994-99? Why did donor governments and...  Read More >>

Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape...  Read More >>

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Land has been a dominant theme in modern Irish history, extending to political and cultural issues as well as permeating...  Read More >>

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