Placeholder for considering resilient and resource-efficient feeding of the world. See also our eating disorder.
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Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption - 80,000 Hours
in Colonialism did not cause the Indian famines
These works suggest a better theory of why the famines happened. The capacity of the states and the markets to provide food and water to the needy was small against the scale of the natural disasters. All large natural disasters reveal such a syndrome. They show that the capacity of the people in charge of relief can be constrained by poor information, distorted information, limited money, limited knowledge of causation, and conflict among stakeholders.
Niggle: This summary does not rule out colonialism AFAICS; Counterfactually, a non-colonial regime might have responded better and decreased the magnitude of the famine.