The codes pertain to ten variables: (1) ordinary nutritional conditions, (2) occurrence of short-term starvation, (3) occurrence of seasonal starvation, (4) temporal proximity of seasonal starvation, (5) occurrence of famine, (6) temporal proximity of last famine, (7) severity of famine, (8) persistence of famine, (9) recurrence of famine, and (10) contingency of famine. The contingency codes h...

The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean, Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and has remained one of the mysteries of the ancient world since the event's retrieval began in the late 19(th) century AD/CE. Iconic Egyptian bas-reliefs and graphic hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts portray the proximate caus...

This article uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we find that women who were pregnant during the famine were less likely to have ma...

DEATH and disease are no strangers to underdeveloped economies. At best, nutritional standards are poor: diets are inadequate in calories, protein, and vitamins. At worst, adverse weather conditions or pestilence or war can devastate the main food supply causing famine, disease, and death. These scourges are still familiar in Asia and Africa; in the western world such disasters have faded into ...

Abstract Sardinia is one of the five Longevity Blue Zones (LBZs) in world. Compared to other LBZs, percentage male centenarians much higher. Due island’s isolation, genetic traits Sardinian people have shown that they are direct descendants their Nuragic ancestors from Neolithic era. To survive during times food scarcity, many “famine foods” created; acorn bread containing clay, cheese ripened ...

This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we …nd that women who were pregnant during the famine were less likely to have male ...

This paper examines print media coverage of Tharparker Famine 2014 occurred in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The research observes the magnitude and patterns of media coverage in the wake of famine. It explores extensively the discourse of famine in English and Urdu media. Moreover, it entails the issues highlighted or overlooked in this regard. For this purpose, four widely circulated newspa...

It has been suggested that the Ethiopian famine is only one facet of a long-term climatic change whose effects include the southward movement of the Sahara. The impression is often given that famine is widespread across a belt of Africa from Cape Verde to the Red Sea, but nothing could be further from the truth. Famine is defined as an extreme shortage of food, but this must be viewed in relati...

This paper studies the causes of the largest famine in history, where approximately 30 million individuals died in rural China. We are motivated by the observation that average rural food retention during the famine seems too high to generate a famine without rural inequality in food availability. We document two novel facts. First, there is significant variance in famine mortality rates across...