Abstract
Eliminating food insecurity is one of humanity’s greatest global challenges. Thus, the purpose of this research was to analyze the factors that determine food insecurity in households in the rural area of the Paute River Basin, Azuay Province, Ecuador. Stratified sampling was used as the sampling method, with proportional affixation. Moreover, we employed the Latin American and Caribbean Household Food Security Measurement Scale (ELCSA). We estimated the main determinants of household food insecurity using two binomial logit models and one ordered logit model. For the analysis of the data, the respective statistical and econometric tests were employed. The results show that housing size and access to food security information are the most important determinants of food insecurity in the three predictive models applied in this research. This research contributes to the existing literature on food insecurity and provides important information for policymakers, especially regarding food insecurity in rural areas, which has profound economic and social implications.
Highlights
It is a basic right of all people to have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life [1,2,3]
This research analyzed the determinants of household food insecurity in the rural area of the Paute River Basin in the Azuay province of Ecuador
According to the subjective declaration of the households participating in this research, the average monthly income is approximately USD 300.00, which is below the unified basic remuneration (RBU) of USD 394.00
Summary
It is a basic right of all people to have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life [1,2,3]. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) [5] warns that the number of people in the world suffering from hunger has increased by 11% in the last four years. In 2018, around 2 billion people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity due to poor access to nutritious and sufficient food [4,5]. Low-income countries in LAC face increases in hunger that are related to food insecurity as a result of the stagnation of economic growth [4,7]. According to the National Statistics and Census Institute of Ecuador (INEC), the food problem in this country, where 23.9% of the population lives in poverty [8], is linked to the difficulty of accessing the basic food basket [6,8]. Eliminating food insecurity is one of humanity’s greatest challenges [4,14,15,16]
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