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Potato famine may refer to:

  • European Potato Famine, the wider agrarian crisis in Europe contemporaneous to the Irish and Highland potato famines in the mid-1840s
  • Ireland's Great Famine, the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852
  • Scotland's Highland Potato Famine, a major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857


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Potato famine

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Potato famine may refer to: European Potato Famine, the wider agrarian crisis in Europe contemporaneous to the Irish and Highland potato famines in the...

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Highland Potato Famine

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The Highland Potato Famine (Scottish Gaelic: Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th-century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over...

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European potato failure

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the Scottish Highlands, with Highland Potato Famine and, even more harshly, Ireland, which experienced Great Famine. Many people starved due to lack of...

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History of the potato

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dishes of food. Food portal History portal Potato cooking European Potato Failure Food history Highland Potato Famine History of agriculture Spooner, DM; et al...

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Phytophthora infestans

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culprit in the 1840s European, the 1845–1852 Irish, and the 1846 Highland potato famines. The organism can also infect some other members of the Solanaceae....

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Highland Clearances

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had, in practical terms, little choice but to emigrate. The Highland Potato Famine struck towards the end of this period, giving greater urgency to the...

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List of famines

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toll Live Aid Medieval demography Population decline Potato famine Starvation Theories of famines World population Livy, From the Founding of the City...

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Chronology of the Great Famine

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The proximate cause was famine resulting from a potato disease commonly known as late blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during...

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Lionel de Rothschild

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largest private provider of relief during the Great Irish and Highland Potato famines raising over £500,000. The eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and...

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Blight

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Late blight of potato, caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, the disease which led to the Great Irish Famine Southern corn leaf...

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Subsistence crisis

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ISBN 978-0-521-40613-0. Charts, History in (19 March 2021). "The Causes and Effects of the Irish Potato Famine". History in Charts. Retrieved 10 September 2023....

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Scottish Highlands

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1846, potato blight arrived in the Highlands, wiping out the essential subsistence crop for the overcrowded crofting communities. As the famine struck...

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Legacy of the Great Irish Famine

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United States. Analysing the famine, he wrote: The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight but the English created the famine... a million and half men,...

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Italo Scanga

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frozen for his audience to contemplate. Scanga's series of works, the "Potato Famine" sculptures, are logical extensions of his earlier efforts. He begins...

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Oomycete

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genus that causes diseases such as dieback, late blight in potatoes (the cause of the Great Famine of the 1840s that ravaged Ireland and other parts of Europe)...

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Lazy bed

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the ground. Potatoes were often grown in this way in these regions, until the potato blight Phytophthora infestans caused potato famine in the Highlands...

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Irish Lumper

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infestations of Phytophthora infestans devastated a series of potato harvests, leading to widespread famine and emigration. The cumulative effects of both catastrophes...

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Famine

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potato crop over a few years, resulted in 1,000,000 dead and another 2,000,000 refugees fleeing to Britain, Australia and the United States. Famine still...

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Crofting

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Highland Potato Famine. The small arable plots had meant that the potato was an essential crop, due to its high productivity. The arrival of potato blight...

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Famines in Austrian Galicia

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famines in Galicia in the years 1804–1806 and 1811–1813. Another famine took place in 1832. 1844 saw the destruction of much of the grain and potato crop...

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Potato

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failures that led to the Great Irish Famine. The International Potato Center, based in Lima, Peru, holds 4,870 types of potato germplasm, most of which are traditional...

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Plant pathology

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PMC 7200985. PMID 32411686. Davis N (September 9, 2009). "Genome of Irish potato famine pathogen decoded". Haas et al. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Retrieved...

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List of memorials to the Great Famine

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people affected by the famine, a loy (potato-digging spade), and potatoes on a shelf. A table cuts across a wall, representing the famine on one side and the...

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