Study of Relationship between Food Security with Urban Population and Development Plans in Iran
Subject Areas : Labor and Demographic Economics
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economic, Yazd Agricultural And Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Aaeeo, Yazd, Iran (Corresponding Author), email: jalal.salem@yahoo.com
Keywords: Iran, Development Plans, JEL Classification: R11, Q17. Keywords: Food Security, Percentage of Urban Population,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study is investigating the food security among the Iranian's urban households and effective factors involved for the period of 1983 to 2011. For this purpose, time series pattern used for evaluating the effective factors. The results showed that during the period the food security of urban households had an increasing trend. Despite the enhancement of food security among urban households, 5.1 percent of the urban population received less than necessary calorie level in 2011. The effect of the percentage of urban population on urban households' food security index has been negative, although not significant at an appropriate level. The lag variable of aggregate food security index changes on growth of aggregate food security index in the next year will be negative, so that increasing in one unit growth of food security index in one year; its growth will be decreased by 0.008 units in the next year. According to the results, the index stability and keeping its increasing trend should be considered as a priority in the future development plans.
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