Abstract
This paper empirically examines the determinants of households’ food security in
District Dir (Lower) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Primary data were gathered through a prestructured questionnaire. The screening questions approach was adopted to solicit the
information from a total of 200 households. The binary logistic regression was used for
data analysis. Our results show that farm households with an employed head, and
having improved access to farm and non-farm income, are more likely to be food
secure. While larger sized farm households located away from the main stream markets,
are more likely to be food insecure. We conclude that households’ access to a secure
source of income and markets have a significant influence to ameliorate the food
security in rural areas. The policy is informed to improve households’ access to farm
and non-farm income vis-à-vis accessibility to the main stream markets. We
recommend that interventions are needed to enhance off-farm employment
opportunities, make the agriculture technology more accessible to farmers, and develop
the physical infrastructure in rural areas. The findings of the study have significant
policy implications in the context of food security in other developing countries.
Gulab Sher, Fazli Rabbi, Umar Hayat. (2018) Food insecurity and its determinants in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology, Volume 6, Issue 3.
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