Abstract
This article examines the driving forces of food security in the areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Khamuan, Laos. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 100 NT2 resettlement households based on the random sampling technique. A linear regression technique was used to identify the influence of household food insecurity. The result showed that household size, food price, drought, shock, household income per month, number of laborers, gender of the household head, and farmland areas are important factors for household food insecurity. Policies should focus on irrigation that will permit yearlong cultivation. This will in turn become the stimulus for a concatenation of events in the process of development. People will resettle to practice agriculture while also expanding non-agricultural employment. Businesses in skills training, fish processing, textile, services, and crafts will be created, boosting household income. With inevitable population expansion, education in family planning will also be necessary to control population in relation to available resources.
Highlights
Much progress has been made to reduce the global undernourishment evidenced by a decline, between 1992 and 2016 from 23% to 13%, of the world’s undernourished population, food security is among the greatest challenges humanity faces and continues to face in upcoming years [1]
Laos is a country framed in this particular described scenario, which experiences both factors, with a population growth of 1.53% in 2019 [6] and with 23.2% of the population living below the national poverty line [7]
The climate change and its associated extreme weather conditions may result in crop and property destruction, which challenge producers to shift to new regions, as has happened with the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos
Summary
Much progress has been made to reduce the global undernourishment evidenced by a decline, between 1992 and 2016 from 23% to 13%, of the world’s undernourished population, food security is among the greatest challenges humanity faces and continues to face in upcoming years [1]. From 2010 to 2012, about 870 million (12.5%) of the world’s population were experiencing chronic hunger [2] especially in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia [3], with most living in remote areas of developing countries which primarily depend on water and forest resources [4]. In parallel, these geographical regions are expected to register the fastest population growth in the near future [5] which may compromise the desired scenarios.
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