ANTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Intensive Farming, Avian Influenza, Jared Diamond
8 Jun 2016
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Food for peace 1954 basis for a permanent expansion of our exports with lasting bene ts for ourselves and people of other lands . Not only as a measure to adjust prices at home. Food security is the concept of securing food for the population, everybody can eat and not suffer from famine/other distress caused by lack of food. Malthusian theory: an essay on the principle of population 1798. At a certain point there wont be enough food for everybody. Famine theory based on the overgrowth of population. If you give too much money to the poor they will reproduce more = famine. Looking at india for example they had in a thousand years only 7 famines, but when the british came they had 14 famines in a very short amount of time. Famine is described as a way in which they resisted failure of entitlement of food.
