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Mass starvation's causes may seem simple and immediate: crop
failure, poverty, outbreaks of violence, and poor governance. But
famines are complex, and scholars cannot fully understand what
causes them unless they look at their numerous social and
environmental precursors over long arcs of history, and over long
distances. Famine in the Remaking examines the relationship between
the reorganisation of food systems and large-scale food crises
through a comparative historical analysis of three famines: Hawaii
in the 1820s, Madagascar in the 1920s, and Cambodia in the 1970s.
This examination identifies the structural transformations - that
is, changes to the relationships between producers and consumers -
that make food systems more vulnerable to failure. Moving beyond
the economic and political explanations for food crisis that have
dominated the literature, Stian Rice emphasises important
socioecological interactions, developing a framework for crisis
evolution that identifies two distinct temporal phases and five
different types of causal mechanisms involved in food systems
failure. His framework contributes to current work in famine
prevention and, animated by a commitment to social justice, offers
the potential for early intervention in emerging food crises.
Mass starvation's causes may seem simple and immediate: crop
failure, poverty, outbreaks of violence, and poor governance. But
famines are complex, and scholars cannot fully understand what
causes them unless they look at their numerous social and
environmental precursors over long arcs of history, and over long
distances. Famine in the Remaking examines the relationship between
the reorganisation of food systems and large-scale food crises
through a comparative historical analysis of three famines: Hawaii
in the 1820s, Madagascar in the 1920s, and Cambodia in the 1970s.
This examination identifies the structural transformations - that
is, changes to the relationships between producers and consumers -
that make food systems more vulnerable to failure. Moving beyond
the economic and political explanations for food crisis that have
dominated the literature, Stian Rice emphasises important
socioecological interactions, developing a framework for crisis
evolution that identifies two distinct temporal phases and five
different types of causal mechanisms involved in food systems
failure. His framework contributes to current work in famine
prevention and, animated by a commitment to social justice, offers
the potential for early intervention in emerging food crises.
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