Food, Economics and Entitlements

Amartya Sen

No wp-1986-001, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper deals with questions of starvation and hunger from the perspective of food economics. It points to the need for focusing on the 'acquirement' of food by the respective households and individuals, and the fact that the overall production or availability of food may be a bad predictor of what the vulnerable groups in the population can actually acquire. The 'entitlement approach' concentrates instead on the forces that determine the bundles of commodities over which a family or an individual can establish command.

Keywords: Famine; Marketing (Farm produce); Food security; Food supply; Hunger (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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