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2018
The infrequency of severe mortality crises and the low prevalence of famine and disease are characteristics of modern industrial and post-industrial societies. Understanding the processes leading to their decline, and the associated improvements in living standards and life expectancy, is a precondition for knowing what is needed to prevent their re ...
Guido Alfani, Cormac Ó Gráda
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The infrequency of severe mortality crises and the low prevalence of famine and disease are characteristics of modern industrial and post-industrial societies. Understanding the processes leading to their decline, and the associated improvements in living standards and life expectancy, is a precondition for knowing what is needed to prevent their re ...
Guido Alfani, Cormac Ó Gráda
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Famine and Overweight in China*
Review of Agricultural Economics, 2006There is an increasing body of literature that examines the association between restricted fetal growth and diseases in adulthood as proposed by Barker. One common way to test the hypothesis in humans is to make use of a natural disaster, such as famine, that happened during gestation and examine disease prevalence in later life.
Zhehui Luo, Ren Mu, Xiaobo Zhang
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2020
This chapter reviews the archaeological record of black bears (Ursus americanus) in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Piedmont region of Virginia and North Carolina between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries to better understand Native American bear procurement and use prior to and following European colonization. A contextual study of
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This chapter reviews the archaeological record of black bears (Ursus americanus) in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Piedmont region of Virginia and North Carolina between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries to better understand Native American bear procurement and use prior to and following European colonization. A contextual study of
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Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 1978
In discussing famine, its causes and its results, we immediately run into problems of terminology. It seems to me, however, to be useful to think of the ontogeny of famine as involving three major sets of factors: first, background factors; second, pathological factors (precursors); and third, precipitating factors. (See Table I). For example, the 1974
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In discussing famine, its causes and its results, we immediately run into problems of terminology. It seems to me, however, to be useful to think of the ontogeny of famine as involving three major sets of factors: first, background factors; second, pathological factors (precursors); and third, precipitating factors. (See Table I). For example, the 1974
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1969
For the first time, an official technical mission from the United States has obtained firsthand information on the health of the Biafran population. Their reports confirm that the extent of the caloric and protein malnutrition and the scope of outright famine make the Nigeria-Biafra conflict one of the great nutritional disasters of modern times.
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For the first time, an official technical mission from the United States has obtained firsthand information on the health of the Biafran population. Their reports confirm that the extent of the caloric and protein malnutrition and the scope of outright famine make the Nigeria-Biafra conflict one of the great nutritional disasters of modern times.
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Journal of Economic Literature, 1996 The author observes that famine, defined as widespread hunger or starvation, has occurred in most parts of the world in the twentieth century. Famines are more avoidable now than ever before. Famines defy simple explanations and geographic boundaries.
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Famine in Bengal: A Comparison of the 1770 Famine in Bengal and the 1897 Famine in Chotanagpur
The Medieval History Journal, 2006Famine research has gained ground in both Asia and Africa in recent times and it is well known that British India experienced a series of subsistence crises particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century. However, analyses of these famines by historians have rarely included a study of environmental changes.
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This chapter analyzes the ideological principles that laid the foundations of famine relief in nineteenth-century India. By the late nineteenth century, the modernist confidence in the ability of science to mitigate famine, coupled with a feeling of political responsibility to do so, marked a turning point in the British Empire’s relationship to its ...
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