Hunger Theory, Perspectives and Reality
Subtitle: Assessment Through Participatory Methods (King's Soas Studies in Development Geography)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780754617716
Subjects: Statistics; Social Science; Nutrition survey; Sociology; General; Development economics; Social & political philosophy; Social issues; India; Reference; Food supply; Nutrition surveys
First sentence: The prevalent literature on the subject of food security, drawing from the "Entitlement and Deprivation (ED) Thesis" (Sen, 1981 and Dreze and Sen, 1989), defines an individual to be food secure when there is enough food in the system that he/she can buy (food availability), when he/she has the capacity to buy that food (ability to buy food), and when the food that the individual buys provides her/him with the requisite nutritional value (The World Bank, 1986).