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and Feast Life on the margins the inequality of food and nutrition security FOOD AND NUTRITION INSECURITY PowerPoint presentation by Médecins Sans Frontières Doctors Without Borders MSF UK. Famine, Disease and the Irish. Great Famine in Ireland. Impact . in . Britain. Focus . on famine and the immediate . post-famine years. , 1845-early . 1850s. On the 27. th. of last month [July] I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant [the potato] bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3. By Leah, Caitlin and Charlie. Emigration. Many people felt there was no future and very little hope in Ireland.. Those with a small amount of savings went to Britain.. About 1.5 million went to the United States of America.. By . Caoimhe. Leonard.. . The Great Famine Of 1845.  .  . Blight . i. n . t. he . p. otatoes was the cause of the famine. . Background to the Great Famine. The potato was the principal source of nutrition for . and the . Famine Formula. The Horn of Africa, 2011. Compassion Fatigue:. Analysts of journalism argue that the media has caused widespread compassion fatigue in society by saturating newspapers and news shows with often . in Africa. BBC News 31. st. January 2006. More than half of Africa is now in need of urgent food assistance.. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning that 27 sub-Saharan countries now need help.. North and South Take Different Paths. Words. Industrial Revolution. Factory system. Capitalist. Mass Production. Interchangeable parts. Urbanization. Famine. Discrimination. 1. .. Industrial Revolution. . . 1844- . 1850. By Becky Pigman . and . Bryanna Harms. Pre- Famine Ireland. Before the famine many Irish farmers owned very little land.. The overlords of the farmers didn’t think they needed more land because on average people could get 12 tons of potatoes per acre in a fertilized field.. By Robert W. Carleton. Population before the famine. In 1800, some five million people lived in Ireland. By the Autumn of 1845, when the great famine struck Ireland, there were more than eight million.. and Feast. Life on the margins: the inequality of food and nutrition security. THINKERS’ VIEWS ON FEEDING GROWING POPULATIONS. PowerPoint presentation by . Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK. An Górta Mór. T. he Great Famine. : Some key dates . 1845. 9 September:. Potato blight first reported in Ireland . 9-10 November:. British Prime Minister Peel authorises importation of Indian corn. BY ESTELA BABARSKAITE P7. THE POATAO FAMINE. .. The . potato . famine.  of 1846 to 1852 hit Ireland and Scotland. Many poor people grew potatoes for food. Potatoes grew on poor soil, even in wet and cold conditions. List three diseases you know something about. What are the effects of these diseases?. Essential Question. How do disease-causing fungi effect plants?. ?. Fungi:. One of the five kingdoms of organisms.. .. Charlie Walsh. Aisling O'Reilly. Sophia Hickey. Mia Flood. Hannah-Jane Downey.. What is a Famine?. A Famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several factors including war, population imbalances and crop failure which caused Ireland's Famine in 1845. The potato blight was caused by a fungus called . in Ukraine 1932-1933. Prepared by Maria . Kiciuk. , PhD.. and . Oksana. . Kulynych. , Chair. U.S. . Holodomor. Education Committee. Objectives:. To examine Stalin’s reasons for the . Holodomor. and his policies leading to it..