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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Great Famine, Famine, 1984-1985 Famine in Ethiopia, Year Without a Summer, Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, List of Famines, Lancashire Cotton Famine, Starvation, Chronology of the Great Famine, Global Hunger Index, Great Famine of 1315-1317, Famine Relief, Famine Scales, Mount Lebanon, Dutch Famine of 1944, North Korean Famine, 2005-06 Niger Food Crisis, Operations Manna and Chowhound, Mautam, 2006 Horn of Africa Food Crisis, Bangladesh Famine of 1974, Famines in Ethiopia, U.s. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, European Potato Famine, Malawian Food Crisis, Highland Potato Famine, Vietnamese Famine of 1945, International Commission of Inquiry Into the 1932-33 Famine in Ukraine, 1998 Sudan Famine, Famine Food, Finnish Famine of 1866-1868, India State Hunger Index, Famine Response, Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Doolough Tragedy, Famines in Czech Lands, Russian Famine of 1601-1603, Great Famine of Estonia, Tenpo Famine, Ice Famine, Subsistence Crisis. Excerpt: The 19841985 famine in Ethiopia was a widespread famine affecting the inhabitants of today's Eritrea and Ethiopia . Four Ethiopian provincesGojjam , Hararghe , Tigray , and Wollo all received record low rainfalls in those years. The effects of this low rainfall were exacerbated by lack of adequate government preparations, as well as the increasing drain on government revenues by various insurgencies. In the north, the insurgency of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front and the government's counterinsurgency was the ultimate cause of the famine, though the failure of the short rains in 1984 was the proximate cause. In the south, a separate and simultaneous cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President Mengistu Haile Mariam announced that 46 % of the Ethiopian Gr...