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This paper explores the interrelations between poverty, hunger and famine. The paper argues that the locally and historically specific configuration of poverty, hunger and famine defines what we call a space of vulnerability, the paper finally provide the theoretical framework by which this space can be mapped with respect to its social, political, economic and structural-historical coordinates.