A Preliminary Investigation of Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Basrah Province, Iraq

Abstract

Food security occurs when all individuals at all the occasions have bodily and economic admittance to adequate, safe, and healthful food to encounter their nutritional requirements and diet favorite for an energetic and well life. Diet security might be examined four elements at diverse theoretical stages: areas, states, family, and individual. Iraq in general and Basrah Province people have not sufficient admittance to food for their appropriate diet. The present investigation was taken to explore the causes of diet security and key matters upsetting diet security in rural areas of Basrah Province, Iraq. A sample of 200 family participants was designated methodically from countryside of Basrah Province through a multistage sampling technique. Studies have shown that 63.3% of questionaries stated that they had confronted the difficulties concerning the obtainability of all kinds of diet and 50.3% of contributors were content about the quality of food. Nearly two-third of the questionaries, i.e., 63.3% suggested that they had no admittance to all types of food goods which they need to acquire. The results of Chi-Square and Gamma showed an important and strong meaning between age, schooling, and revenue of the questionaries and their consciousness regarding diet security.