Subject(s): Pre-modern famine -- modern famine -- Post-modern famine -- Humanity -- From old famines to new famines, famine scales- towards an instrumental definition of famine, criminalization of mass starvations- from natural disaster to crime against humanity, Sen's entitlement approach- critiques and counter critiques, AIDS, hunger and destitution- theory and evidence for the new variant hypothesis in Africa, premodern, modern and post modern famine in Iraq, Malawi's first famine -- An atypical urban famine- Antananarivo- Madagascar, north Korea as a new famine, why do famines persist in horn of Africa, increased rural vulnerability in the era of globalization- conflict and famine in Sudan during 1990, why are there no longer war famines in contemporary Europe, famine prevention in two Indian states, can DM crops prevent famine in Africa, priority regimes and famine