But the Levant's dry and mountainous terrain is no stranger to famine. The Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible reference multiple instances of famine befalling the biblical land of Israel ...

Others went into hiding, therefore, leaving most of the land untilled. This resulted into little or no harvesting at all, and emerged great famine. ?Inzala ya Kilo (Kilo’s famine) in 1971 came ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated ... so with a bit of land, a family of six could grow enough potatoes to feed them for a year.