ABSTRACT
Hunger can be caused by absence of institutional sanctions to access the available food and available food being culturally unacceptable. In many cases people may be more hungry than they otherwise would have been if there is no common property resources (CPR), micro-environment, forests, etc. which provide food, from the secondary food system. Entitlement failure or decline in entitlement or absence of institutional sanction to access food etc. is the proximate causes of hunger. There are at least seven basic reasons why people are unable to exercise their right to food and go hungry. Powerlessness and politics, violence and militarism, poverty, rapid population growth exerting strain on environment and over-consumption, racism and ethnocentrism, gender discrimination and vulnerability and age, are the seven of the more important causes of entitlement failure. Hunger is often caused and perpetuated by issues of politics, powerlessness of hungry people and hungry nations, and power-status-structure in domestic and global society.
