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‘Sometimes the new crops could make the difference between life and death.’. Explain the statement with any two examples.

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The introduction of potatoes greatly improved the diet of Europe’s poor, helping them eat better and live longer.
In Ireland, dependence on potatoes caused disaster when a mid-1840s crop failure led to mass starvation and death.

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      1. Sometimes new crops like potatoes could make the difference between life and death. It was with the introduction of the humble potato that Europe’s poor began to eat well, eat better and live longer.
      2. Similarly, the introduction of maize and cassava from the Americas to Africa provided cheap and nutritious food sources, helping to reduce hunger and support population growth. These crops became essential staples in several African regions over time.
      3. Ireland’s poor peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when the potato crop was destroyed by disease in the mid-1840s, hundreds of thousands of peasants died of starvation
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