Efficient food

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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.

  This summary does not do the work of ruling out colonialism AFAICS; Counterfactually, a non-colonial regime might have responded better and decreases the magnitude of the famine. Still.