potato famine

Examples of potato famine in the following topics:

• Irish Immigration

  • A second wave of Irish Catholic immigration began in the 1840s following the potato famine in Ireland.
  • The Irish potato famine (1845–1849) destroyed much of the potato crop in Ireland and sent the entire country into starvation.
  • In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers encountered competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were more easily exploited by employers, working for far less money and enduring worse conditions than native-born women.
  • Irish immigration begin in the mid-eighteenth century and intensified during the great potato famine of 1845–1849.

• Agricultural Diversity

  • For example, potatoes were domesticated beginning around 7,000 years ago in the central Andes of Peru and Bolivia.
  • Potatoes are only one example of human-generated diversity.
  • The potato demonstrates a well-known example of the risks of low crop diversity.
  • The tragic, Irish potato famine occurred when the single variety grown in Ireland became susceptible to a potato blight, wiping out the crop.
  • The loss of the crop led to famine, death, and mass emigration.

• Protists as Plant Pathogens

  • Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete responsible for potato late blight.
  • This disease causes potato stalks and stems to decay into black slime .
  • Widespread potato blight caused by P. infestans led to the well-known Irish potato famine in the nineteenth century that claimed the lives of approximately one million people and resulted in the emigration of at least one million more from Ireland.
  • Late blight continues to plague potato crops in certain parts of the United States and Russia, wiping out as much as 70 percent of crops when no pesticides are applied.
  • These unappetizing remnants result from an infection with P. infestans, the causative agent of potato late blight.

• Immigration to the United States

  • The great potato famine in Ireland (1845–1849) drove the Irish to the United States in large numbers; they emigrated directly from their homeland to escape poverty and death.
  • In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers encountered competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were more likely to be exploited by employers, working for far less money and enduring worse conditions than native-born women.

• The Law of Demand

  • example of a Giffen good, though a popular albeit historically inaccurate example is the purchase of potatoes (an inferior good) as prices continued to increase during the Irish potato famine.

• Immigrant Labor

  • In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers encountered competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were willing to work for far less and endure worse conditions than native-born women.

• Chromalveolata: Stramenopiles

  • One plant pathogen is Phytophthora infestans, the causative agent of late blight of potatoes, such as occurred in the nineteenth century Irish potato famine.

• The Beginnings of the Labor Movement

  • In Lowell, Massachusetts, for example, the daughters of New England farmers encountered competition from the daughters of Irish farmers suffering the effects of the potato famine; these immigrant women were willing to work for far less and to endure worse conditions than native-born women were, and American manufacturers took advantage of this to keep wages low.

• Famine and Oppression

• Applications of Systems of Equations

  • A group of 75 students and teachers are in a field, picking sweet potatoes for the needy.
  • Kasey picks three times as many sweet potatoes as Davis—and then, on the way back to the car, she picks up five more!
  • Looking at her newly increased pile, Davis remarks "Wow, you've got 29 more potatoes than me!
  • " How many sweet potatoes did Kasey and Davis each pick?
  • The number of sweet potatoes that Kasey picks is K, and the number of sweet potatoes that Davis picks is D.