| Summary: | “Food security” is one every of major factors of progress and poverty alleviation and has been the goal of many worldwide and country wide public organizations. The worst food crisis since 1974 broke out in 2007 - 2008 where agricultural commodity prices for world markets had reached their highest levels within 30 years (The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets’s report, 2009). As an example, the price of wheat, rice and soybeans rose by over 40 percent, 60 percent and 40 percent. The food crisis directly affect one of the most primary human rights which is the right to be free from hunger and malnutrition and it is clear that the food policies is necessary to ensure that people have access to safe, sufficient, nutritious, and sustainably grown food; and it must go beyond traditional agricultural production. Indeed, household in Asia, especially Malaysia, consume rice as their main food. These hikes in population, shrinks natural resources and food production and causes Malaysia to increase food importation. When Malaysia is having too much import than export, our economy will be affected or becoming worst. This situation should be a major concern for all Malaysian now whereby there were only few studies on household food insecurity, limited to poor and marginalized communities. According to Bajagai (2016) the dimension of food security are food availability, food access, food utilization, and stability. However, there are other dimensions of food security according to different researchers. This paper is about the determinants global food crisis contributes to food insecurity at selected hypermarkets in Malaysia. © Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd.
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