Could Albania manage a week without imported food? The available reporting identifies pressure on domestic agriculture, but it does not provide enough information to answer that question. A prominent trade statistic measures food’s place in the import bill, rather than the share of meals supplied from abroad. Albanian Daily News reports, citing World Bank data for 2023, that food accounted for 16.1% of Albania’s total imports. The corresponding figures were 24% for Montenegro and 16.3% for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those percentages describe the composition of imports. Albania’s figure does not mean that 16.1% of the food consumed in the country is imported. It also cannot establish how much food would remain available if deliveries stopped for seven days. The report nevertheless describes weaknesses in domestic production. Citing INSTAT, it says agricultural production fell by 1.1% in 2024, following a decline of 1.8% in 2023. The 2024 fall was the fourth consecutive annual contraction. Agriculture employed 32.2% of the workforce, according to the same report, while its contribution to employment had declined by four percentage points since 2019. The article links falling production to difficulties among family farms and a sharp contraction in livestock farming. It also describes a changing production model. Declining and ageing rural populations are associated with the loss of small farms producing food for their own consumption, while agricultural businesses develop greenhouses serving export markets. In the report’s account, some former producers have consequently become purchasers of food. These findings help explain concern about dependence on foreign suppliers. They do not amount to a national food balance or an assessment of emergency reserves. The supplied evidence contains no inventory of food stocks, no product-by-product comparison of domestic supply and consumption, and no estimate of how much food households or distributors hold. A defensible answer to the one-week question would require those details, including the timing of any interruption. The report supports scrutiny of shrinking agricultural output and changes in family farming. It does not support a prediction that Albania would either run out of food or pass through an interruption without difficulty. The distinction matters: evidence of agricultural strain is a reason to investigate resilience, not a substitute for measuring it.