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Household Food Security

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Introduction:
Food security is a very crucial concept for the globe that has evolved significantly over the time. The meaning of food security has evolved since the first World Food Conference of 1974. It has been defined in a multiple ways by different authors and organizations. There are 450 indicators and 200 definition of food security. But, the most broad definition comes from FAO (2010) stating “food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Household food security is the application of this concept to the family level, the individuals within …show more content…

2008) , (Dominguez, 2010) , (Wond & Macaulay, 2010) , (Coneval , 2010) ( Hussein and Janekarnkij , 2013) and (Lemus et al., 2013) all of them have founded similar causes of food insecurity relating to the households characteristics …show more content…

But some of them have checked at Provincial, District levels and some have checked at rural levels, like (Hussain, 2003), (Ahmad, 2003), (Massuanganhe, 2008), (Shahbaz, 2009), (Suleri and Haq, 2009), (Shahbaz et al.010), (M.K Bashir 2012) and (Ali and Khan 2013) . But nobody has checked the social economic determinants of food insecurity at national level in Pakistan. But the present study aims to check the food insecurity status and its determinants at national, provincial and as well as at rural and urban in Pakistan by using latest HIES

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