Food security in ASEAN countries

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Abdul Manap, Nur Marina, Ismail, Normaz Wana
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: TX Home economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://repo.uum.edu.my/17040/1/07.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/17040/

Food security is defined as a situation in which all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary need for a productive and healthy life. Food security problem is a crucial issue for national development, poverty alleviation and becomes a global issue due to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target by 2015.Food security problem occurs when there is a sudden drop in the ability to produce or have access enough food to maintain a good nutritional status and it is known as transitory food deficit.United States Agency International Development (USAID) have introduce several plans necessary for achieving food security and it is known as availability, accessibility and utilization. The objective of the study is to investigates the role of food security dimension for food security achievement in Asian countries.This research employs static panel data by using random and fixed effects analysis