Development of a Food Security Management Model forAgricultural Community

Abstract

Considering on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) definition of food security, it is a state that is able to access by all people at all times to have enough food for an active and healthy life. The Food security includes at a minimum: 1) ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and 2) an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in the socially acceptable ways including, physical and economic access, at all times, to be the sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet the dietary needs and the food preferences for an active and healthy life. In rural area, there is a tendency of food vulnerability.  In Agricultural community, the food security is a condition in which all community residents can obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes a community’s self-reliance and a social justice. The purpose of this research was to develop a food security management model for an agricultural community. The population was the people in agricultural area of Mahasarakham Province. The research design with the quantitative research was employed in this study. The questionnaire used as an instrument for the data collection was done as a quantitative approach and the Canonical Correlation was used for the data analysis.

The result of quantitative research, the finding revealed the best model of canonical correlation was the model had canonically correlated with .51355 between the set of independent variable of the land fertility, the vegetable production, the meat production, the food sources, and the community participation for the natural resource and the environment conservation and the set of dependent variable of food quality, food quantity, and food safety.