++ for Amartya Sen. I think he first covered this in the book Poverty and Famines, where he drives home the point that famines can happen even if food is availa

++ for Amartya Sen. I think he first covered this in the book Poverty and Famines, where he drives home the point that famines can happen even if food is available and even if food prices have not been driven up sharply. Modern famine is a failure of government (war is an obvious cause, but not the only one.) http://www.worldcat.org/title/poverty-and-famines-an-essay-on-entitlement-and-deprivation/oclc/10362534 http://www.worldcat.org/title/poverty-and-famines-an-essay-o...