The Effect of Individual And Family Characteristics on Food Security of Rural Households

Food security is one of the important factors that provides personal, family and social health of society and it is a fundamental need for the development of human kind. Although rural areas are a main source of food production, but they still suffer from greater food insecurity than urban society. Many factors affect food security, individual and familial characteristics are one of the most essential factors. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of these factors on food security. The study area was Shavoor district. A total of 300 rural households were included in the study. The samples were chosen using a stratified random sampling procedure, and the data was analyzed using logistic regression. Only approximately 62 percent of households have adequate food security, according to the findings. The variables of the head of the household's level of education, age, having a male child, having an active person in the family, having a person working in the non-agricultural sector, and also having a person with underlying disease on household food security have a statistically significant effect among the individual and family characteristics studied. Given that this set of variables can improve for roughly 30% of the ability to predict the household food security, therefore, managing and improving the situation of rural household food security requires consideration of them along with other variables.