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Famine in East Prussia killed 250,000 people or 41% of its population. [65] According to other sources the great mortality was due to plague (disease) , which between 1709 and 1711 killed about 200,000–250,000 out of 600,000 inhabitants of East Prussia. [ 66 ]
Pages in category "Famines in Europe" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Great Famine of 1695–1697; Finnish famine of 1866–1868;
FEWS NET was created in response to the 1984 - 1985 famines in Sudan and Ethiopia, which resulted in the deaths of as many as 1 million people. From the beginning, the aim of the early warning system, then called "FEWS", was to anticipate impending famines and advise policy makers on how to prevent or mitigate such famines.
This list may not reflect recent changes. Famine * Global Hunger Index; List of famines; B. Bark bread; F. Fameal; Famine Early Warning Systems Network; Famine events ...
The Codes listed three stages of food insecurity: near-scarcity, scarcity and famine, and were highly influential in the creation of subsequent famine warning or measurement systems. The early warning system developed to monitor the region inhabited by the Turkana people in northern Kenya also has three levels, but links each stage to a pre ...
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [ 1 ]
This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1846–1848 Newfoundland potato famine; ... European potato failure; F. Famines in Austrian Galicia; Finnish famine ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1958 Tigray famine; 1972–1975 Wollo famine; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 1992 famine in Somalia; 1993 Sudan famine;