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FAD theory:food-availability decline BY Amartya Sen in Bangladesh, Famine 1974, Amartya Sen, FAD, Entitlement approach

It is divided into

six sections. Section 9.1 titled ‘Floods and Famine’ describes the nature of floods and their

detrimental effects on crop production, while Section 9.2, ‘Food Imports and Government

Stocks’, describes the state of public food stock and the problems associated with importing

foods, particularly in the context of crop damage due to floods. Sen assesses the conventional

FAD notion in Section 9.3 titled ‘Food Availability Decline?’ The nature of famine victims

and intensity of their destitution are examined in Section 9.4 titled ‘Occupational Distribution

and Intensity of Destitution’. In Section 9.5, ‘Exchange Entitlement of Labour Power’, Sen

applies his entitlement approach to explain how famine was caused in Bangladesh. Finally,

the assumption that total food-availability decline (FAD) is the central cause of all famines. Sen argued that the more proximate cause is so-called “entitlement failure,” which can occur even when there is no decline in aggregate food production.