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Famine and food security are at opposite ends of a spectrum. It is only in modern times that entire societies, as opposed to privileged members of those societies, have been able to escape from chronic hunger and the constant threat of famine. Many countries in the developing world, especially in Africa and South Asia, have not managed to achieve this objective. In these countries, the challenge of understanding the factors that cause widespread hunger and vulnerability to famines, and the mechanisms available to alleviate their impact, has remained important. The present study emphasizes that there is a different way to approach the problem, however. Rather than asking how to cope with hunger and famine, the question might be how to escape from their threat altogether. The main premise of this essay is that an early escape from hunger is not primarily the result of private decisions in response to free-market forces. Improved food security stems directly from a set of government policies that integrate the food economy into a development strategy that seeks rapid economic growth with improved income distribution. Countries in East and Southeast Asia offer evidence that with such policies, poor countries can escape from hunger in two decades or less, that is, in the space of a single generation.
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