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Two international nonprofit organizations, ReGen250 and Friends International Bilingual Center, are organizing relief to respond to a famine affecting Indigenous people in Bolivia's Altiplano region ...

North Carolina State University researchers used text analytics on both historic and modern writing to reveal more information about the effects and spread of the plant pathogen—now known as ...

Clues into the Irish population's diet during Ireland's Great Hunger were discovered in research carried out on the teeth of ...

A historic potato plant specimen collected by David Moore from the National Botanic Garden in Glasnevin, Ireland showing late-blight disease. In an examination of the genetic material found in ...

The first accurate maps of outbreaks of potato blight — a disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans that was responsible for the Irish potato famine between 1845 and 1852 — in ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

The source of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine has finally been identified. Researchers from North Carolina ...