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“Famine is rarely the result of food scarcity; it is the geography of entitlement failure.” Comment.

  • Economic Geography

The statement captures the modern consensus: famine is a social and geographic event before it is an agricultural one. Since Amartya Sen's Poverty and Famines (1981), the scarcity view — Malthus's population-versus-food arithmetic — has given way to the entitlement view: people starve when their ability to command food collapses, even where food is physically…

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  • Introduction: Endorsing Sen, with One Adjustment
  • 1. The Theoretical Foundations
  • a) Amartya Sen's Entitlement Theory
  • b) M.J. Watts' Political Ecology
  • 2. The Case Studies: Entitlement Failure in Action
  • 3. The Spatial Patterns: A Geography of Vulnerability
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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