Factors affecting on rural households food security (Case study: Karnachy Village in Kermanshah County)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor and PhD Candidate, College of Agriculture, Razi University, Iran

2 MSc, Rural Development, University of Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Access to adequate food and health nutrition is the major subject in society health and development. So, food security has a particular importance among priorities of development in each country. The main purpose of this study was to investigate influencing factors affecting food security among 100 rural households in Kerenchy (a village in Kermanshah County) selected by random sampling, methodological descriptive and cross-sectional performed in 2012. General information questionnaire was used for collecting socio - economic situation of population also for surving food security situation of population used standard questionnaire (USDH). Data analysis was performed using Chi-square test and logistic regression. Results showed that there were positive significant relationship among socio - economic households' status with theire food security instance; monthly family income, father's job status, live facilities, level of mother education and family size. Based on the final results of the logistic regression, among all of the variable in this study, father's occupational status, household income and access to facilities had the greatest effect on the prediction of study on food security.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 45, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January 2015
Pages 725-737

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