The plant family Solanaceae is composed of at least 2,400 species of flowering plants. Though found worldwide, the nightshades are most abundant in tropical Latin America. Many are economically ...

MCALESTER, Okla. — In 1847, Ireland was dying. A potato disease epidemic exacerbated by the British government (which controlled the entire island of Ireland at the time) exporting all other suitable ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans ...

President Donald Trump’s recent Great Gatsby–themed party at Mar-a-Lago shimmered with all the excess of a lost empire: champagne towers, roaring twenties jazz, guests dripping in pearls and ...

That is according to an organization that monitors hunger around the world. The famine is one effect of a war. In recent days, an armed group that's battling the government captured a city called El ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. What happened in Europe from about 1845 to 1852 should ...

The Irish Potato Famine, often referred to as the Great Hunger, changed the course of history not just for Ireland, but for the entire world. It was a period of mass starvation, disease, and ...

One Kenyan consumes more than 40 kilograms of potatoes per year. Potatoes are Kenya's second most important food crop after maize. However, over the years this important commodity has been affected by ...

On a cold November day in 1848, a landlord’s crowbar brigade leveled the homes of 700 tenants in Tonagh, Co. Cavan — a brutal moment in Ireland’s darkest chapter. This is the story of that devastation ...