PO220 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Iodine, Autocracy, World Food Summit
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Fear was that population growth was going to keep expanding and thus food will run out. Population growth has never been regulated by famine. Famine is a result of poor harvest and poor crops; this made a large issue on availability in the 70s (world food crisis) Access: by 1980s, more attention was paid to access to these crops, instead of availability, amartya sen: starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat. : created the entitlement approach" (most influential work on famine since. Malthus) states that the access to food comes from four different sources. Gained access through market, labour, gift, or production. The more one has, the more food security s/he has. Famine is determined by failure to access (new idea) Paradox: those who usually produce food (i. e. via farming) are often the ones who do not have food.
