ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that individuals can be food insecure even when the conditions are satisfied and to that extent there are gaps in the Entitlement and Deprivation (ED) thesis. There are three more conditions, namely, the existence of institutional sanction to access available food, the exercise of choice to access the food that is available and the presence of a secondary food system which must be satisfied before individuals could be guaranteed to be food secure. The chapter examines the different concepts of entitlement and deprivation, and how they relate to food (in) security, based on Amartya Sen's thesis. It shows that the issue of food insecurity analysed in terms of Sen's E&D Thesis is concerned with two basic conditions: one, availability of food and two, individual's ability to access food either through endowment or direct entitlements or exchange entitlements.
