Definitions of Famine - JHSPH OCW
Title: Definitions of Famine Author: rskinner Created Date: 3/7/2006 3:42:16 PM
Famine: Natural or Man Made? - World Info
• The international famine center (www ucc ie) defines famine as follows: Famine may be seen as “the regional failure of food production or distribution systems, leading to sharply increased mortality due to starvation and associ-ated disease” The definitions above suggest the following points:
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Definitions of Famine (Food consumption-based) Sudden collapse in level of food consumption of large numbers of people (Scrimshaw, 1987) Lack of food over large geographical areas sufficiently long and severe to cause widespread disease and death from starvation (Chamber’s Encyclopedia)
World Bank Document
Some doubtful starting points for the analysis of famine can easily get embedded in its definition Common usage allows two distinct definitions One is that famine entails an extreme and general scarcity of food while the other defines it as widespread, unusually life-threatening, hunger
IPC and Famine: Using the Appropriate Terminology and
decision-making, the IPC thresholds for famine (and) are set to signify the beginning of famine stages The IPC does not preclude a postfacto analysis of a famine event that may further categorize and compare a famine with other historical famines From the IPC perspective, ‘famine’ is not a rhetorical, emotive term Rather it is a
“SOMETIMES WE DON’T EVEN EAT” - CARE
Food Security Definitions “Famine” is a technical term that is classified or declared when at least 20 of the population in an area or location have extreme food consumption gaps; at least 30 of children (ages 6-59 months) are acutely malnourished; AND the crude death rate exceeds 2 per 10,000 people per day
An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security
Famine / humanitarian catastrophe See www ipcinfo for more information IV VULNERABILITY The dynamic nature of food security is implicit when we talk about people who are vulnerable to experiencing food insecurity in the future Vulnerability is defined in terms of the following three critical dimensions: 1 vulnerability to an outcome;
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