China has continuously played down the causes and effects of the Great Famine, which is still officially known as the "Three Years of Difficult Period" or "Three Years of Natural Disasters." ...

U.N. officials on Monday asked for $6 billion for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world's worst ...

to the China Famine Relief Fund, 205 East 42nd St., New York City. “Funds must be raised and forwarded immediately,” cabled he, “if great loss of life is to be prevented.” Thus far the C.

Studies of the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-62 and the Dutch Hunger Winter at the end of World War Two have yielded similar findings. Researchers have also shown that malnourishment in the womb ...

BACKGROUND The adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis suggests that when mothers are in poor conditions the sex ratio of their offspring will be biased towards females. Major famines provide ...