Title: Food accessibility, a viability and stability in rural white Nile State of Sudan.
Abstract: Food security is a major problem which affects economy increasing in Sudan and other parts of Africa. Here, through this study we had tried to know the pattern of food consumption and the food security status in White Nile State of Sudan. The measurement of food security in the State was achieved through a household survey by questionnaire in 2012. Through the indicators of Self-sufficiency rate and market rate, social factors had been confirmed to influence food security status for the rural household through crops production, livestock production or household income. Using the coefficiency variation (CV) for Aggregated Price (ap) to the food groups, and Microsoft offices Excel 2007, the result shows 5 food groups had different level to central tendency, where vegetables 0.3 and sugar has zero dispersion among all foods groups; in other hand, cereal grains and livestock groups had the same dispersion to the central tendency estimated 0.1. In addition, we found that household spending 70.4% of total income on food items. Advocacy to increase self-sufficiency rate from cereal grains mainly for all of the state population especially the state have relative resource to produce more food.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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