| Amartya Sen - Business & Economics - 1982 - 276 pages
...BIBLIOGRAPHY 2I 7 INDEXES 250 Chapter l Poverty and Entitlements II ENTITLEMENTS AND OWNERSHIP 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. While the latter can be a cause of the former, it is but one of many... | |
| L. T. Evans, Lloyd T. Evans - Science - 1996 - 516 pages
...famine of 1973 there was significant export of food out of the famine areas. As he puts it: '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.' Although imports of cereal grains, especially wheat, by the developing... | |
| International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Disaster relief - 1995 - 166 pages
..."FED" (food entitlement decline). The difference is encapsulated in Sen's definition of starvation as "the characteristic of some people not having enough...is not the characteristic of there not being enough to eat". Famine does not affect everyone equally; some benefit, including cereal traders and wealthy... | |
| Alexander De Waal - History - 1997 - 260 pages
...certain area. His opening statement echoes the Famine Commissioners of a century earlier: Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough...to eat. It is not the characteristic of there not heing enough food to eat. While the latter can he a cause of the former. it is hut one of many possihle... | |
| Gordon Conway - Nature - 1998 - 358 pages
...and Agriculture Organization (Fisheries Circular 710 (Rev. 8)) 15 Achieving Food Security Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough...the characteristic of there not being enough food to eat. - Amartya Sen, Poverty and Famines [1] The challenge we face, as I have argued in this book, is... | |
| Peter Calvert, Susan Calvert - Nature - 1999 - 262 pages
...everyone; the problem is that so many of them lack access to it, owing to power structures. '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. While the latter can be a cause of the former, it is but one of many... | |
| Jenny Edkins - Social Science - 2000 - 276 pages
...misplaced and in some cases damaging. In the opening words of Sen's Poverty and Famines: 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. While the latter can be a cause of the former, it is but one of many... | |
| David C. Engerman - History - 2004 - 422 pages
...Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen put it, "Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough to eat. It is not the characteristic of there not being enough to eat."3 The famine originated in the Soviet leadership's desire to bring the countryside under economic... | |
| Alex de Waal - History - 2005 - 289 pages
...have been disputed, but his reconceptualization of the nature of famine is widely accepted: 'Famine is the characteristic of some people not having enough...the characteristic of there not being enough food to eat' (p. 1). Thus 'food shortage' definitions of famine, such as the 'international definition accepted... | |
| Wenche Barth Eide - Development - 2005 - 565 pages
...focus should not be food supply failure but rather demand failure or 'entitlement collapse'. Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough...food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there beingnot enough to eat. While the latter can be a cause of the former, it is but one of many possible... | |
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