Cambodia Famine of 1979 Development Economics Presentation

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Cambodia Famine of 1979 Development Economics Presentation

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A great contribution of Development Economics to human welfare in the last 40 years is demonstrating that a drastic decline in the aggregate food supply is neither a necessary nor sufficient cause of famine. Declining food availability can only be part (if any) of the cause of a famine; it is a change in individuals’ access to food, means of procuring food, or capability to convert food into a healthy outcome that leads to mass starvation.

Choose a historical famine and:

Describe the famine and its impacts (distribution, demographics affected, length oftime, severity)

Describe the political/economic/social climate leading up to the famine and any environmental changes (drought, rains, crop disease) that might have precipitated a food

crisis.

Argue the proximate cause of the famine and explain how it ended

Argue if and how the famine could have been avoided through alternative domestic or

international responses.

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