what was the cause of widespread famine like situation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
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A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
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A million Irish died and another million left the island before the famine lifted in 1852.
The Great Famine of Ireland killed almost one-eighth of the population. It proportionally caused more destruction of human life than most modern famines.
The Great Famine destroyed the means of survival of more than one-third of the population for five years in a row.
Some of the British elite viewed the famine as an act of Providence meant to punish the perceived shortcomings of Irish agriculture and the Irish people.
The Great Famine of Ireland killed almost one-eighth of the population. It proportionally caused more destruction of human life than most modern famines.
The Great Famine destroyed the means of survival of more than one-third of the population for five years in a row.
Some of the British elite viewed the famine as an act of Providence meant to punish the perceived shortcomings of Irish agriculture and the Irish people.
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