SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FOOD GAP ESTIMATION OF RURAL EGYPT AND ITS RELATION WITH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

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.