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Article: Food and Food Poverty: Perspectives on Distribution.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Introduction
The lack of food is more closely associated with human poverty and deprivation, at least symbolically if not in fact, than all other basic needs. The occasion of famines and endemic under-nutrition, until recent decades, seemed to confirm the ultimate truth of Malthus' observation that population growth was destined to outstrip the capacity to produce food. That has changed. In the mid-sixties, the Green Revolution ushered in a period of rapid food production growth in many poor countries. And although famines still occur, it is understood that they can be deterred or fostered by public policy. Amartya Sen, recently awarded a Nobel Prize, and others ...