“The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington reported on Nov. 29, 1914, in a story ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Irish potato famine pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, is traced back to the Andes Mountains in South America, not Mexico. Genetic analysis reveals that P ...

Again? You can do better—and I don’t mean with scrambled eggs. Turn breakfast as you know it on its head with these good morning sweet potatoes from Dominick Thompson’s new cookbook ...

This is exactly what happened during the Great Famine. Potato blight, a water-based parasitic algae called Phytophthora infestans, had been ravaging potato crops through Europe since at least the ...

Even though potato fields are filled with plants of the same variety, potato growth often varies widely. This puzzle has long intrigued farmers, biologists, and suppliers of seeds. Even ...

Let us emphasize right away that Sudan is not experiencing nor can experience a severe famine. Upon examining the FRC [Famine Reiew Committee] report we couldn't but think that the issue of hunger ...