He suggested that it was an inability to ‘command’ adequate food because of a failure of entitlements that led to mortality. While this insight suggested that poverty was a principal reason that people experience famines, Sen pressed for a more nuanced understanding of why certain groups are more at risk of starvation than others during a crisis. He argued that famines often occur not from a lack of availability of food, but from the inability of certain populations to access it. In his landmark 1981 book, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, future Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen proposed a revolutionary shift in our understanding of these crises.
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