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Models of Famine, Early Warning Systems and Policy Responses

Why do famines happen?. Climatic Theories Demographic Theories Sen's ?Entitlement Approach' ?Complex Emergencies'. Famine early warning and response. What is ?famine'?. New directions in famine thinking. ?A famine is a food shortage leading to widespread death by starvation.". But ~ famines ha

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Models of Famine, Early Warning Systems and Policy Responses

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    1. Models of Famine, Early Warning Systems and Policy Responses Stephen Devereux Institute of Development Studies (UK)

    3. “A famine is a food shortage leading to widespread death by starvation.” WHAT IS FAMINE?

    4. “famine is a socio-economic process which causes the accelerated destitution of the most vulnerable, marginal and least powerful groups in a community, to a point where they can no longer, as a group, maintain a sustainable livelihood.” ~ Peter Walker (1989)

    5. WHY DO FAMINES HAPPEN?

    10. “Entitlement failure”

    11. “Entitlement failure”

    14. Famine as a sequence of “entitlement failures”

    15. “Anti-famine “social contracts” [India] Accountability and the “right to food” Donor – Government relations [Malawi] “Pre-modern” and “Post-modern” famine [Iraq] “New Variant Famine” [HIV/AIDS]. NEW DIRECTIONS IN FAMINE THINKING

    16. Democracy and famine prevention INDIA AFRICA

    17. FAMINE EARLY WARNING

    18. Application of “famine scales” in Somalia

    23. CONCLUSION: THE “NEW FAMINES” Past famines were understood as “acts of God” (natural disasters, natural population growth); Most contemporary famines are “acts of man” (they are caused by human action or inaction); Even when production and market failures occur, famines are not inevitable until transfers also fail; “New famines” are more political because they are almost always predictable and preventable.

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