Examples of Subsistence Crises
- The one prior to the French revolution, in which there was a shortage of grain and flour because of two consecutive years of crop failures and low yields resulting in hoarding and inflated prices.
- The Great Famine of 1315-1317
- The Great Famine in Ireland. By the mid-1800s, the Irish had been living for decades in extreme poverty, which worsened the repeated and total failure of the potato crop, the starvation, which was worsened by the colonial British Empire with ineffective famine relief projects, evictions and emigration under duress, which often led to illness.
- The Year Without a Summer
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