What is a famine-food decline availability

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What is a famine? Distinguish between the Food Decline Availability and the Entitlement approach to famine. Consider either the Bengal famine of 1943 or the Wollo famine of 1973. Explain, first, why an explanation in terms of food decline availability can seem, at first blush, correct. Second, explain why, on further investigation, it cannot be correct.

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