In this lecture Amartya Sen has tried to comment on a number of difficult policy problems. The entitlement approach on its own does not resolve any of these issues. But by focusing on the acquirement problem, and on the major variables influencing acquirement, the entitlement approach provides a general perspective that can be fruitfully used to analyses the phenomenon of hunger as well as the requirements of food policy, he has tried to illustrate some of the uses of the entitlement- approach, and has also discussed what policy insights follow or do not follow from it. He has also claimed that the approach is, with a few exceptions, in line with very old traditions in economics, which have been, in their own way, much preoccupied with the acquirement issue. The challenges of the terrible economic problems of the contemporary world relate closely to those traditional concerns, and call for sustained economic analysis of the determination and use of entitlements of diverse occupation groups. Source: Food, Economics and Entitlements