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Tables of Contents for Hunger and Public Action
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
xv
List of Tables
xvii
Part I Hunger in the Modern World
Introduction
3
17
Past and Present
3
4
Famine and Chronic Undernourishment
7
2
Some Elementary Concepts
9
8
Public Action for Social Security
17
3
Entitlement and Deprivation
20
15
Deprivation and the Law
20
2
Entitlement Failures and Economic Analysis
22
3
Availability, Command and Occupations
25
6
The `Food Crisis' in Sub-Saharan Africa
31
4
Nutrition and Capability
35
11
World Hunger: How Much?
35
2
Food Deprivation and Undernourishment
37
5
Poverty and Basic Capabilities
42
4
Society, Class and Gender
46
19
Are Famines Natural Phenomena?
46
1
Society and Cooperative Conflicts
47
3
Female Deprivation and Gender Bias
50
5
Famine Mortality and Gender Divisions
55
1
Gender and Cooperative Conflicts
56
4
Protection, Promotion and Social Security
60
5
Part II Famines
Famines and Social Response
65
20
Famine Prevention and Entitlement Protection
65
3
African Challenge and International Perception
68
3
Informal Security Systems and Concerted Action
71
4
Aspects of Traditional Response
75
6
Early Warning and Early Action
81
4
Famines, Markets and Intervention
85
19
The Strategy of Direct Delivery
85
2
Availability, Prices and Entitlements
87
2
Private Trade and Famine Vulnerability
89
4
Speculation, Hoarding and Public Distribution
93
2
Cash Support
95
7
An Adequate Plurality
102
2
Strategies of Entitlement Protection
104
18
Non-exclusion, Targeting and Selection
104
3
Alternative Selection Mechanisms
107
2
Feeding and Family
109
4
Employment and Entitlement
113
5
A Concluding Remark
118
4
Experiences and Lessons
122
43
The Indian Experience
122
4
A Case-Study: The Maharashtra Drought of 1970--1973
126
7
Some African Successes
133
25
Lessons from African Successes
158
7
Part III Undernutrition and Deprivation
Production, Entitlements and Nutrition
165
14
Introduction
165
1
Food Self-Sufficiency?
165
3
Food Production and Diversification
168
2
Industrialization and the Long Run
170
2
Cash Crops: Problems and Opportunities
172
5
From Food Entitlements to Nutritional Capabilities
177
2
Economic Growth and Public Support
179
25
Incomes and Achievements
179
4
Alternative Strategies: Growth-Mediated Security and Support-Led Security
183
4
Economic Growth and Public Support: Interconnections and Contrasts
187
1
Growth-Mediated Security and Unaimed Opulence
188
2
Opulence and Public Provisioning
190
3
Growth-Mediated Security: The Case of South Korea
193
4
Support-Led Security and Equivalent Growth
197
7
China and India
204
22
Is China Ahead?
204
2
What Put China Ahead?
206
4
The Chinese Famine and the Indian Contrast
210
5
Chinese Economic Reforms: Opulence and Support
215
6
China, India and Kerala
221
5
Experiences of Direct Support
226
31
Introduction
226
1
Sri Lanka
227
2
Chile
229
11
Costa Rica
240
6
Concluding Remarks
246
11
Part IV Hunger and Public Action
The Economy, the State and the Public
257
24
Against the Current?
257
3
Famines and Undernutrition
260
2
Famine Prevention
262
4
Eliminating Endemic Deprivation
266
4
Food Production, Distribution and Prices
270
3
International Cooperation and Conflict
273
2
Public Action and the Public
275
6
References
281
78
Name Index
359
10
Subject Index
369