Subject(s): Starvation -- Famines in History : Crime, slavery, prostitution, infanticide, child abonnement, cannibalism -- Food supply in History -- Prevention and coping, famine foods, country misers and calculating merchants, migration -- Famine demography : Hierarchies of suffering, death, gender and age, long term impact -- Markets and famines : Profiteers, French economists and Adam smith, markets and famines in practice, transport -- Entitlement - Bengal and beyond : Food supply and market failure -- Public and private action : Feeding the starving, means of relief, corruption, NGOs and globalization of relief, famine relief as state aid -- Violence of government : USSR, Chinese famine of 1959-61, Ethiopia and north Korea -- End to famine : Agricultural trends, climate and desertification, where backwardness persists