Is Famine Relief Irrelevant to Rural People?

Famine: Its Effects and Relief

ruled Egypt, and after Joseph interpreted his dreams, " famine was over all the face of the earth." The old empires of the Euphrates, Assyrian and Babylonian, were not free from the scourge. Imperial Rome itself suffered from famine. Parts of Europe in the Middle Ages were frequently famine-stricken. At more recent dates, China, especially in the north, has experienced famines. Famines in India...

Rural Medical Relief

Is Task-Irrelevant Learning Really Task-Irrelevant?

In the present study we address the question of whether the learning of task-irrelevant stimuli found in the paradigm of task-irrelevant learning (TIPL) [1]-[9] is truly task irrelevant. To test the hypothesis that associations that are beneficial to task-performance may develop between the task-relevant and task-irrelevant stimuli, or the task-responses and the task-irrelevant stimuli, we desi...

Emergency Relief during Europe’s Famine of 1817 Anticipated Responses to Today’s Humanitarian Disasters

Humanitarian professionals continue to seek best practice guidelines for famine relief. Many emergency interventions in developing countries draw on recent lessons from the 20 century, but attention has also been paid to historical experiences such as the 19 century evolution of India’s Famine Codes and responses to Ireland’s famine of the 1840s. This article goes further back in time to examin...

An Experiment in Rural Medical Relief