Introduction
Life chances refer to the opportunities each individual has to improve upon his or her quality of life and are generally correlated to the individual’s social situation. Traditionally, life chances has been related to lifestyle choices and the distribution of rewards, however has more recently been used within a social justice perspective informing the question of capabilities and inequalities between social categories (Manuel 2006).
The world is now a place where opulence and destitution are the lived realities of certain groups. Sen argues that this opulence is unprecedented, to the extent that it would have been challenging to imagine a century or two ago. Simultaneously, there is “deprivation, destitution and oppression” (Sen 2001, p. xi). Brown and von Braun state that roughly 80% of the world’s 1.2 billion poor are dependent on agriculture for their...
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Outhred, R. (2019). Food and Life Chances. In: Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1179-9_337
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