Potato famine
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Potato famine may refer to:
- Great Famine (Ireland), the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852
- Highland Potato Famine, a major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857
- European Potato FamineEuropean Potato FamineThe European Potato Failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties. While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly harshly affected were the Scottish...
, the wider agrarian crisis in Europe contemporaneous to the Irish and Highland potato famines