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This 3 page paper considers the aspect of famine and looks at the different theories that have sought to examine what starvation occurs and the way that it should be handled. The paper includes the theories of Malthus, Sen and de Waal. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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being as a result of the population growing beyond the resources, with the result of mass starvation until the population falls back and into balance with the resources (food supplies).
However, this is now seen as a very limited view of the causes and the solution to famine. Another view has been that famine is caused by the failure
of food crop of food supply, as seen when a drought occurs and the food levels drop resulting in starvation and as such this may still be seen as a
lack of resources but from the other side of the equation with the resources failing to support the population. The idea that famine is the result of a food
shortage may be attractive, but this is challenged in terms of the food being available rather than if it exists, Sen (1981 states "Starvation is the characteristic of some people
not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there not being not enough to eat" (Sen, 1981; 1). This indicated that the cause of famine was
more to do with the relationship between the commodity and the people, not its existence. The attitude here was one of value, it changed the way in which famine
theories were examined and bought the study, in academic circles, back into the realm of social sciences. However, some would argue that the study may not have been studied in
this manner, but the practice did take this approach, as seen with the Famine Codes for India (Rangasami, 1985). The work that Sen undertook looked more towards entitlements are
than good quantity questions. The work indicated that each famine may be different and rather than a single theory, each occurrence would need a separate examination (Sen, 1981). The result
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