POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Food Security, Human Capital Flight, Good Governance
Document Summary
In 1964, total cereal production in the ssa was 32 million tons, compared with a demand of no more than 33 million tons. In 1999: demand outstripped production by 15 million tons with the number of malnutritioned people standing at 194 million (fao: by 2015: demand for food in ssa is expected to reach us billion, double its level of day. Has to be good quality and accessible: this appears to ignore nature focused (neo-malthusian thesis) fear that population growth outstrips food production and resulting in starvation. Looks at over-popualtion as the issue and that some of the population. At the time of malthus work (1789) there was no technology to produce should die more food: amartye sen uses a society focused approach and says that entitlement distribution is important. Have to look at who has access to food and who can get access to food. Some parts of the continent (or country) have food, and some parts go hungry.
