Famines

Question 1

What is a famine?

Answer 1

Food shortage leading to widespread death from starvation
‘The community syndrome’ which results when social, economic and administrative structures are already under stress and are further triggered by one, or several, discrete disruptions which accelerate the incidence of many symptoms, or crisis adjustments, of which one is epidemic malnutrition

Question 2

Food entitlement is categorized into…

Answer 2

Trade based entitlement
Production based entitlements
Own labour entitlements
Inheritance and transfer entitlements

Question 3

What is is direct entitlement failure?

Answer 3

For food producing individuals only a collapse of food endowments(what she produces) can make her starve

Question 4

What trade entitlement failure?

Answer 4

For a non food producer, along with DEF, starvation can be caused by an increase in the price of food relative to what they produce