Elshazly,, S. (2003). SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS. Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, 28(8), 6103-6115. doi: 10.21608/jaess.2003.245047
S. S. A. Elshazly,. "SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS". Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, 28, 8, 2003, 6103-6115. doi: 10.21608/jaess.2003.245047
Elshazly,, S. (2003). 'SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS', Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, 28(8), pp. 6103-6115. doi: 10.21608/jaess.2003.245047
Elshazly,, S. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS. Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, 2003; 28(8): 6103-6115. doi: 10.21608/jaess.2003.245047
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension Oept., Faculty of Agriculture Aln Shams University
Abstract
The Present decade of third thousand must be given a creat part of concern thinking. Ideology and useful understanding of food and nutrition issues.
This study aimed at estimation food gap throughout the lack of food and malnutrition. Thin find the relationship between food gap and Human development index. A two - stage random cluster sample was used in this study. The :;tudy considered the category less than 2600 calories (which the least of calories to keep one's fife in rural Egypt) that suffered from lack Food. The category that obtained tess than 226 calories from animal proteins that suffered from malnutrition. By using rule of acdition in probabilities mutually exclusive of both lack of food and malnutrition it was Food gap. The main study findings that there were 13.5% of total sample were suffered from lack of Food where 23.5% of total sample were suffered from malnutrition. There were a significant correlation between Food gap and Human development index.