Abstract
Food security exist when all people, all the times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life. Food security may be analyzed four units at different conceptual level: regions, countries, household and individual. Pakistani people have not enough access to food for their proper nutrition. This study was carried out to investigate the determinants of food security and key issues affecting food security in rural areas of Faisalabad. A sample of 120 household respondents was selected systematically from rural Faisalabad through multistage sampling technique. Study revealed that 63.3% respondents reported that they had faced the problems regarding the availability of all type of food products and 50.3% respondents were satisfied about the quality of food. Almost two third of the respondents i.e. 63.3% claimed that they had not access to access to all type of food products which they want to get. The value of Chi-Square and Gamma showed a significant and strong association between age, education and income of the respondents and their perception about food security. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n4p676
Highlights
Food security can be broadly divided into three main components namely; food availability (Physical access to food), economic access to food and equity of food distribution (Timer, 2000)
Data demonstrated that majority of the respondents 45% were illiterate, whilst the 23.3% respondents had 1to5 grade education. 17.5% and 14.2% respondents had 6 to grade and and above grade education respectively. 21.7% respondent’s income were up to 10,000 rupees, while majority 43.3% of the respondent’s income were in between 10001 to 20000 rupees and more than one third i.e. 35% had above respondents in (Rs).s 20000 hose hold monthly income
Rupees per month, while the 36.7% respondents spent 10001 to 15000 rupees per month on purchasing food. These findings show that a bulky share of monthly household income was allocated for purchasing the food item in rural areas
Summary
Food security can be broadly divided into three main components namely; food availability (Physical access to food), economic access to food and equity of food distribution (Timer, 2000). In Pakistan, food insecurity remain an unfulfilled dream for currently about 42 million people have not access to enough food. Pakistan is a food secure as well as food sufficient country at the national level. Out of 120 districts of rural areas of Pakistan only 40 districts have access to secure food while 80 (67%) are food insecure. This report points out that the number of hungry, under nourished and malnourished people raises from 51% of the country’s total population in 2008 to 58% in 2011.This report further reported that almost 60% households in Punjab, 72% in Sindh and 63.5% in Baluchistan suffered food insecurity. Floods, poverty, armed conflicts, terrorism, energy crisis, economic slowdown and political instability are some of the major factors blamed for rising number of hungry people in the country (NNSP, 2011)
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