What is Malthusian explanation
population if unchecked increases at a geometric rate (2,4,8,16) whereas the food supply grows at an arithmetic
Relationship between demographic and economic trends
Mamdani (1972) pointed out that poor people are not poor because they have more children, but they have more children because they are poor.
What are the 12 myths of hunger?
- Not enough food to go around
- Natures to blame for famine
- Too many people
- Efforts to feed the hungry are causing the environmental crisis
- Environmental crisis
- The green revolution is the answer
- We need large farms
- The free market can end hungry
- Free trade is the answer
- Foreign aid is a cure
- Because the poor is too hungry to fight for their rights we need to help them
- We benefit from their poverty
- Curtail freedoms to end hunger
What are the cause of hunger?
- lack of access to livelihoods
- lack of power
- other social and natural disruptions
what is amrtya’s sen’s theory?
Amartya Sen blames hunger and famines to lack of entitlements and power. He argues that famines are not caused by lack of food but, lack of right
What is Dacher and Tarasuk’s view on the cause of food insecurity
Dachner and Tarasuk argue that food insecurity is caused as a result of material deprivation in modern societies
Material deprivation refers to the inability of individuals or households to afford goods and services and activities that are typical in a society.
What is food security?
a condition in which all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active healthy life”
What percent of canadians experience food insecurity
12.7
what are michel foucaults arguments
Power explains that government relied on discipline as a tool of governance of the poor
What are 2 key solutions to food insecurity ?
- income security (providing minimum basic income)
2. government providing social assistance to the most vulnerable segments of the population
What are armed conflicts?
limit the availability of food; prevent civilians from acquiring related essentials; rare resources are spent on armament; result in deterioration of economic conditions and infrastructure. Wars use resources that could be used for other purposes, population displacement severely reduces people’s chances to have access to livelihoods and food and the collapse of the state result in general deterioration of public security and social safety.
Why is foreign aid not a good solution?
- many food aid policies often actually make it harder for people to feed themselves,
- are highly concentrated on very few governments,
- are not related to need, but to bolstering friendly governments,
- food aid can actually forestall local agricultural development,
- aid is often concentrated on governments dead-set against reforms in favor of the poor,
- Rich governments cut off aid as a form of punishment, - the biggest form of foreign aid is military aid to arm governments against their hungry people, and
- most development aid fail to help the poor and the hungry
