ABSTRACT
In a motivational framework Abraham Maslow classified human needs in terms of physiological and social parameters. The development of society is determined by both the technical and material conditions, as also the social conditions of production. Ideology, politics, culture, religion, customs, usage, social norms and practices, legal system, customary rights, system of justice, etc. all have a strong bearing on development. One way of developing a theory of hunger and society can be through the dialectical model of society. The chapter summarises some "mono-disciplinary" or reductionist approaches and political approaches, used to analyse hunger and formulate policy prescriptions emanating from the analyses. It discusses the moral economy approach to solve hunger problem is the first holistic approach. The Political Economy Approach starts from the premise that household-level strategies for avoiding hunger are much more common than village or community-level schemes designed for the sharing, pooling and shifting of household risks.
