ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss food availability, the first dimension of food security. As Sen (1981) pointed out, food availability is about the existence of sufficient food for people to eat, rather than every individual actually having enough food to eat. From this point of view, the adequacy of food availability is about the balance between food requirements and food production and not just about food production on its own. Here, we focus on issues related to this balancing process.
