Sentences with phrase «food availability decline»

The Bengal Famine of 1943, a defining scar on the Bengali psyche, has been infamous internationally since Sen demonstrated — first in an article and then in his book Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)-- how famine did not occur due to «food availability decline» but rather the deterioration of «exchange entitlements» of particular groups in rural Bengal which denied them access to food.

Not exact matches

Coconut trees in the Philippines have already been on the decline for decades, and the coconut oil from coconuts is also now valued as a fuel source in bio-diesel production, resulting in less coconut oil availability as a food source each year.

In the 1920s food corporations and pharmaceutical companies developed and marketed a second generation of commercial infant formulas, the availability of which contributed further to the decline and duration of breastfeeding.

Already in 2006 a group of four researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO - KNAW) reported in a publication in Nature that they could attribute strong population declines for the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) to a climate change - induced trophic temporal mismatch, causing the birds to miss the peak in spring food availability their successful nesting depended on.

• Rural areas — Negative effects of global warming on humans in rural areas occur through declines in water availability and supply, food security, and agricultural incomes.