UPPCS Prelims 2025 · GS Paper I: Who among the following introduced the concept of entitlements in food security?1. M. S.…
Who among the following introduced the concept of entitlements in food security?
- 1. M. S. Swaminathan
- 2. Atul Pranay
- 3. Samali Srikant
- 4. Amartya Sen
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Answer (c) & explanation
Option (c), only 4, is correct. The entitlement approach to famine and food security was introduced by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981). He argued that famines, such as the Bengal famine of 1943, happen not just because food is short but because some groups lose their entitlement, meaning their ability to command food through production, trade, work or transfers. M.S. Swaminathan (1), the father of the Green Revolution, is linked to food production, not this concept. Atul Pranay and Samali Srikant are distractors, so options (a), (b) and (d) are wrong. Concept: Sen won the 1998 Nobel in economics. He also developed the capability approach behind the HDI. Trap: Swaminathan is a food security name but not the entitlements one.
M.S. Swaminathan is linked to food security, but entitlements are Amartya Sen's.
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