Entre a fome e a burocracia : políticas públicas e a segurança alimentar na Índia

Tiburcio, James Augusto Pires

doi:10.26512/2015.02.t.18440

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“…The Agreste region in the 1870s was isolated both in terms of transport and communication. Bulk transportation was almost non-existent, and the long distances affected the quality and speed of response to emergencies, such as droughts that resulted in famine-like situations (TIBURCIO, 2015). But it is not clear whether marginally speedier information, better trade, and better road infrastructure would have prevented the human and economic costs of the droughts (HANDMER et al, 2012).…”

Section: Geographical Approaches To Brazilian Famine Conditions: Testing the Usefulness Of Manmade Versus Natural Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Sen's influence in famine relief analysis permeates most scholarship in the subject. Its indictment of colonial governments' apathy, inaction, and market failures ingrained food policy into humanitarian crises (TIBURCIO, 2015). Colonialism became a byword for famine, especially in south Asia and Africa.…”

Section: The Political Hypothesis Of Famines In Brazil: Political Approaches To Brazilian Famine Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nature vs policy: drought and famine in the northeast of Brazil, 1877-79

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Droughts followed by famines were common in Brazil, mainly in Northeast Brazil, until the 1980s and were frequently devastating, destroying livelihoods. A succession of droughts resulted in harvest failure, triggering famines in some cases. Famine-like conditions prevailed mainly in the 1877-79 Grande Seca (Great Drought), in which many died of malnutrition-related causes. In subsequent droughts, famine-like conditions reoccurred, but the extent of starvation-induced deaths declined to almost zero. Do only available political theories and known natural and socio-political factors, such as climate, topography, and market viability, provide sufficient data to investigate the causes of the drought of 1877-1879? The author concludes that there is little or no research, accumulated knowledge and information on the possible factors that satisfactorily explain why the drought and famine episodes were so impactful in that period.

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Section: Geographical Approaches To Brazilian Famine Conditions: Testing the Usefulness Of Manmade Versus Natural Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Political Hypothesis Of Famines In Brazil: Political Approaches To Brazilian Famine Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%