> [!todo] See also [[Food Crisis in Hawaii- From Chronology to Typology]]
> - [ ] review @bjorck_2016 on crisis typologies
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| Period | <18th Century | 19th C | 20th C | 21st C |
| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Disruption | Weather & Warfare | Economic & Weather | War & Economic | Economic & Pandemic |
| Impact | Regional hunger or famine | $ famines begin and end, respectively | Disruptions impact all islands | Disruptions affect entire globe |
| Mitigation Strategy | Crop/production system diversity, *Kapu* | New crop integration, | Central planning, Market integrated storage | Entitlement programs |
| Response/Adaptation Strategy | Food alternates, Migration | Migration, *poi palaai* | Export reorientation,<br>Relief/international shipment, international | Civil society safety net, Transfer entitlements |
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## Vulnerability Type Definitions:
**Ecological Vulnerability** (<18th Century):
- Directly exposed to **environmental hazards** (drought, warfare)
- **Localized impacts** - disruptions affect specific regions
- **Built-in resilience** through biodiversity and social systems
- Risk stems from **immediate environmental/social factors**
**Integration Vulnerability** (19th C - First Food Regime):
- Vulnerability emerges from **incorporation into global systems**
- **Transition period** - old systems breaking down, new ones not yet stable
- **Sandalwood famine** shows how external economic demand creates internal food crisis
- **One-way vulnerability** - external economic forces disrupt local systems
**Nodal Vulnerability** (20th C - Second Food Regime):
- **Export disruption** (plantation crops can't reach markets)
- **Import disruption** (food supplies can't reach population)
- **Same infrastructure** serves both vulnerabilities (ships)
- Maritime strikes perfectly demonstrate this nodal exposure
**Systemic Vulnerability** (21st C - Third Food Regime):
- **Global cascading effects** - local disruptions have worldwide impact
- **Financialized vulnerabilities** - supply chains, just-in-time delivery
- **Corporate concentration** creates single points of failure
- **Sharetaker responses** may reproduce rather than solve systemic vulnerabilities
## Key Evolution Pattern:
**Localized → Integration → Nodal → Systemic**
Each successive period doesn't eliminate earlier vulnerabilities but **adds new forms of vulnerability**. The Third Regime still has ecological vulnerability (climate change), integration vulnerability (global markets), AND nodal vulnerability (import/export), PLUS new layers of systemic vulnerabilities from corporate consolidation and financialization.
This progression shows why **sharetaker solutions** may be insufficient - they may appear to address **nodal vulnerability** (import dependence) but in practice move import relience from food to feed (e.g., Villa Rose), and potentially **intensify systemic vulnerability** through corporate control and global market integration.