In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

There are a good 10 famine areas where that has been declared, where people have no food, where people are dying of hunger. Out of the 10, we only have access to four. So six we, at this point in ...

Instead, he cites reams of evidence to show that famine is not imminent. He also points out that Malthus became less pessimistic after a few years and cheekily observes that “Malthus was not a ...

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.

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Directed by Syafiq Yusof, the action film stars Sharnaaz Ahmad, Shukri Yahaya, Syafiq Kyle, Syazwan Zulkifli, Amelia Henderson and others. Myanmar struck by 7.7 magnitude earthquake, tremors felt ...

The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up in humanitarian assistance helped to avert catastrophe. Today, food insecurity on the increase once again, with 3.4 million people already ...

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