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Jean-Pierre Leguay noted the Great Famine "produced wholesale slaughter in a world that was already overcrowded, especially in the towns, which were natural outlets for rural overpopulation." [13] Estimates of death rates vary by place, but some examples include a loss of 10–15% in the south of England. [14]
The already weak harvests of the north suffered, and a seven-year famine ensued. In the years 1315 to 1317, a catastrophic famine, known as the Great Famine, struck much of North West Europe. It was arguably the worst in European history, perhaps reducing the population by more than 10%. [16]
Citizens in Bengal road making as part of a famine relief project. It has been suggested by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that the causal mechanism for precipitating starvation includes many variables other than just the decline of food availability such as the inability of an agricultural laborer to exchange his primary entitlement, i.e ...
The great famine of the 1590s began a period of famine and decline in the 17th century. The price of grain, all over Europe was high, as was the population. Various types of people were vulnerable to the succession of bad harvests that occurred throughout the 1590s in different regions.
Famine following a series of hurricanes that struck the island [73] Martinique: 1779: Famine in Rabat: Morocco [74] 1782 Famine in Karahisar [4] Ottoman Empire: 1780s: Great Tenmei famine: Japan: 20,000 – 920,000: 1783: Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of Laki killed one-fifth of Iceland's population [75] Iceland: 1783–1784: Chalisa ...
The colder climate resulted in agricultural crises, the first of which is known as the Great Famine of 1315–1317. [68] The demographic consequences of this famine , however, were not as severe as the plagues that occurred later in the century, particularly the Black Death . [ 69 ]
The causes of the famine were different, from natural (droughts, crop failures, low rainfall in a certain year) and economic and political crises; for example, the Great Famine of 1931–1933, colloquially called the Holodomor, the cause of which was, among other factors, the collectivization policy in the USSR, which affected the territory of ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was the last catastrophic famine in India, and it holds a special place in the historiography of famine due to Sen's classic work of 1981 titled Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation whose accuracy and analysis has however been hotly contested by experts in the field.