It Is Not Population Growth Alone But The Deprivation Of Opportunities And Deterioration Of Human Capital : Alarming Famine Bells In Sidama Land.
By Mulugeta Daye Coventry University Photo from https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=459937104040289&set=pb.100000720098450.-2207520000.1383745439.&type=3&theater Introduction For Malthusian apologists and those incapable leaders to feed their people, Population growth is the main reason to blame for famine causation. The assumed linkage among famine, starvation, and mass mortality in both popular conceptions and technical definitions stems directly from the debate started by Malthus more than two centuries ago. Yet as more nuanced analyses have recently demonstrated, famine can occur in varying degrees of severity well before critical food shortages become evident. For example, villagers in Sudan distinguish a “famine that kills” from a range of other food crises experienced at the household level that may cause hunger and destitution but not necessarily lead to death (de Waal 2004). This means without creating window of opportunities to human capital