ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights several major frameworks for food security evaluation. It evaluates the major dimensions of China's food security. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) framework, food security is evaluated along four dimensions: availability, access, utilisation and stability. At the national level, food supply in China is presently abundant. While food availability is no longer a problem for most Chinese people, having safe and quality food has become a major issue. By the 2000s, unsafe foods became more widespread, including adulterated foods for babies. In 2003, fake infant milk powder with very low nutrients was sold in rural areas of Fuyang, Anhui. In 2008, the industry-wide scandal where baby milk powder was contaminated with melamine was disclosed. It caused kidney failure in infants and various other health problems and death. Cultural acceptability of food for the majority of the Chinese people is not a major issue. Most foods are generally acceptable to the Han majority.
