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A STUDY ON FOOD SECURITY SITUATION OF MAGWAY REGION (A CASE STUDY OF CHAUK TOWNSHIP)
AMY AUNG
Food security has become the most challenge for national and global governance due to population growth, economic instability and climate change. This thesis focuses on understanding of food security situation of the households in Chauk township. The descriptive method with quantitative and qualitative approaches were used. The primary data was collected using semi structured questionnaires. It is analyzed the three dimensions of food security (Availability, Accessibility and Utilization) that are very important for the households at any point and it is also highlighted the important of food security conditions are needed to be continuously met (Stability). It is observed that 56.4% of households didn’t have access to agricultural land and the households encountered long period of lean season from February to June every year that is leading them to lack of job opportunity and 86.8% of households are having financing food with debts. The households’ food consumption pattern and the way they adopted different strategies to cope with the food insecurity situations have also been learnt. Moreover, suggestions are made how to increase resilience of household’s agricultural livelihoods, food systems and nutrition that will address the availability of food in the community and the whole system is stable.
2019
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000001157
https://meral.edu.mm/records/1157