Subject(s): Famines -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Food supply -- Nutrition policy -- Social policy -- Hunger in modern world : Famine and chronic undernourishment, public action for social security -- Entitlement and deprivation : food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa -- Nutrition and capability : World hunger, food deprivation and undernourishment, poverty and basic capabilities -- Society, class and gender : Famines natural phenomena, society and cooperative conflicts, female deprivation and gender bias, famine mortality and gender divisions, gender and cooperative conflicts, protection, promotion and social security -- Famines and social response : Famine prevention and entitlement protection, African challenge and international perception, informal security systems and concerted action, aspects of traditional response -- Famines, markets and intervention : Strategy of direct delivery, private trade, speculation, hoarding and public distribution, cash support, adequate plurality -- Strategies of entitlement protection : Feeding and family, employment and entitlement -- Experiences and lessons : Indian experience, case study- Maharashtra drought of 1970-73, lessons from African successes -- Undernutrition and deprivation : Production, entitlement and nutrition - food self sufficiency, food production and diversification, industrialization, cash crops, nutritional capabilities -- Economic growth and public support : Alternative strategies- growth mediated security and support led security- case of South Korea, economic growth and public support and unaimed opulence, support led security and equivalent growth -- China and India : Chinese famine and Indian contrast, Chinese economic reforms, experiences of direct support- Sri Lanka, Chile, Costa Rica -- Hunger and public action : Economy, state and public : Famines and undernutrition, damine prevention, endemic deprivation, food production , distribution and prices, international cooperation and conflict, public action and public