Abstract
Household food security is vital to measure of a countryâs advancement and well-being. Three mostly usage determinants to measure household food security are per capita daily calorie availability, dietary diversity, and individuals body mass index (BMI) scores. Food security condition in rural Bangladesh is vulnerable due to poverty, unavailability and high prices of food. Almost every year food price is increasing in Bangladesh due to the low level of production, improper market management and fraud business syndicate from some top traders. In Bangladesh, food production is affected by natural calamities such as the flood in monsoon period. Rice is considering as the leading food and dominating 70% of total calorie intake in rural Bangladesh. Rural inhabitants are consuming protein and micronutrient-rich food very infrequent. The main barriers to decrease the malnutrition rate are a lack of access to protein and micronutrient rich foods and inappropriate health services. Women and children are the primary targets of ensuring nutrition security in developing worlds. However, in rural Bangladesh, in practice, both women and children are getting fewer privileges regarding food consumption and health facilitates. The main objective of this paper is to examine the role of womenâs earnings and food budget control. Very authentic, recognized and useful datasets are needed to get the precise insights and information about food security condition and the role of women in food security in the rural Bangladesh. Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey 2011-12 datasets are used for this study. Regression method is used to analyze the research objectives. This paper found that women control over food budget has positive roles to ensure food availability in the house and more dietary diversity. However, the BMI scores indicate that rural people are heavily under-weight and under-nutrition.
Highlights
Three dummy variables are created from the data of women work earnings and expenses to perform regression
Multiple regression is performed to examine the role of three independent variables: women earnings, women control over food budget, and simultaneously women earnings & control over food budget which are classified separately into three alternative models
Model 2: Examining the role of women control over food budget in the household food security in the rural Bangladesh
Summary
Bangladesh is one of the low-middle income and populated countries in the world. The majority number of population is living in rural areas where less income, food deficit, and malnutrition are common problems. In 2015, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported over 159 million inhabitants in Bangladesh, where 67.5% populations are living in rural areas. Rural women traditionally play the central role to manage households beyond agriculture and non-agriculture activities. They prepare and process all types of food for the family, and take care household members children and elders. Poor women are the central target in this program This program covered more than 860,000 households in Bangladesh by February 2000 [2]
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