Assessment of the food security status of agricultural households in Gharbia Governorate

Abdelrahman, Tarek Attia; Amer, Asmaa; Sliem, Basyouni Mohamed

doi:10.21608/jsas.2025.403807.1536

Assessment of the food security status of agricultural households in Gharbia Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Agricultural Economics Department, Rural Sociology branch, Faculty of Agricultural, Kafrelsheikh University

² معهد بحوث الإرشاد الزراعي والتنمية الريفية

³ قسم الاقتصاد الزراعي كلية الزراعة جامعة كفر الشيخ

10.21608/jsas.2025.403807.1536

Abstract

The research mainly aimed to assess the food security status of agricultural families in Gharbia Governorate by determining the degree of food insecurity indicators. Kafr El-Zayat Center was randomly selected from the eight administrative centers affiliated with Gharbia Governorate, and two villages were randomly selected from Kafr El-Zayat Center. The random selection resulted in the villages of (Kafor Belshay, Banofer), on a sample of 330 respondents. The most important results were as follows: About 90% of the respondents had low or medium food insecurity indicators for their families. The results indicated that the variables included in the study combined were related to the degree of food insecurity indicators at the level of the respondents’ families with a correlation coefficient of 0.615, which is a value that proved significant at the probability level of 0.01 based on the calculated F value, which amounted to 17.571. The results also indicate that the independent variables combined explain 37.8% of the variance in the dependent variable based on the value of the coefficient of determination (R2), and that the most important obstacles that The challenges facing the researchers in achieving food security are: lack of job opportunities (unemployment), high food prices, insufficient income for the agricultural family, mismatch between the number of family members and their agricultural productivity, and instability of agricultural markets. The most important proposals to eliminate these obstacles were: increasing income for the agricultural family, providing job opportunities for the agricultural family

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