There were starvations all over the world, all over the history. Bad harvests often resulted in starvation epidemics.
The Stalin era starvation was special, because it was artificial. There were plenty of food available. Stalin used hunger to punish the population. He forcibly confiscated the food, wasted it, assigned it to desirables and even exported it.
I do not believe English confiscated and exported potatoes out of Ireland!
"I do not believe English confiscated and exported potatoes out of Ireland!"
As in India, exports of food from Ireland increased as its people starved, enriching the British Empire.
The Irish Potato Famine And Charles Trevelyan
"But the starvation in Ireland and the deaths which resulted from the famine were wholly preventable and the British Empire did little or nothing to prevent it other than assign a man with a near psychotic hatred of the Irish in general and the poor in particular, Charles Trevelyan to direct their policy. "