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Famines

Food crises, policy and their human consequences.

An image of famine victims in Calcutta published by The Statesman on 22 August 1943.

Bengal famine

Mass starvation during wartime, shaped by colonial priorities and unequal access to food.

Posed photograph of Askari soldiers serving German colonial forces in East Africa, 1906.

Maji Maji war and repression

An anti-colonial uprising met by the destruction of villages, crops and livelihoods.

James Mahony’s 1847 illustration of famine conditions near Skibbereen, commissioned by the Illustrated London News.

Great Famine of Ireland

A crop catastrophe made deadlier by poverty, land inequality and failures of relief.

A historical map showing areas affected by several Indian famines, including the nineteenth-century crisis.

Great Famine of 1876–1878

Drought and hunger intensified by restrictive colonial relief and inadequate support.

A makeshift relief airfield at Calabar, Nigeria, in the late 1960s; part of the wider humanitarian response.

The Biafran famine and relief airlifts

Confronting mass starvation through emergency relief during the Nigerian Civil War.

Victims of starvation on a Kharkiv street in 1933, photographed by Alexander Wienerberger.

The Holodomor

Mass starvation under Stalinist grain requisition and repression in Ukraine.

A historical atlas map showing India in 1765; geographical context before the Bengal famine, not a map of famine mortality.

Great Bengal famine

Mass hunger during the East India Company's early revenue rule in Bengal.

A historical atlas map showing India in 1765; regional context before the Chalisa famine, not an image of its victims or extent.

Chalisa famine

A severe food crisis across several northern Indian regions after widespread drought.

A modern map highlighting the Deccan Plateau; geographical context for the Doji Bara famine, not a mortality map.

Doji Bara famine

Prolonged monsoon failures producing a devastating regional food crisis.