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- Title
مؤشرات وأبعاد الأمن الغذائي في مصر.
- Authors
أحمد أبواليزيد الرسول; هبه عبد الكريم فوزي
- Abstract
The research problem is the inability of local food production to meet all needs of individuals from safety food, both in terms of making it available to all members of society and enabling them to obtain it and its health adequacy, especially in light of the limited natural resources and the continuing population increase, and thus increasing the demand for food. The research aimed to identify the most important indicators of food security in Egypt and the dimensions that include those indicators, and to analyze the Factor Analysis of these indicators using the Principal Component Analysis method (PCA). The most important research results are: As for the factor analysis of food security indicators in Egypt, which included 25 indicators to study the four main dimensions, it was initially excluded both the railroad density index in the distance of arrival or acquisition, as well as the ratio of the percentage of arable land equipped for irrigation in the stability dimension, in order to verify the values for both of them during the study period years 2000-2017. It was found that all the indicators for which factor analysis was conducted (23 indicators) in Egypt are highly appropriate for the analysis through the value of the KMO tests amounted to 0.871, and the Bartlett's Test where the value of the calculated Chi-square was about 1651.494 and it is significant at the level of 1%. It was found from the explanation variance by means of the initial solution for factor analysis, and the underlying root values of the extracted factors that there are 4 factors for which the Initial Eigenvalue value was greater than one, and that they combined account for about 92.319% of the total variance of the variables. Factor analysis results shows the first factor is the most important in determining the dimension of food availability and that it includes two variables: the average adequacy of energy sources of food with loading or saturation values of 0.966, and the food production index with a saturation of 0.960 i.e. The dimension of food availability is the most important, as it explains the largest percentage of variance, which is about 64.044%. This confirms the need for food production and consumption policy in Egypt to take this dimension into account in the first place. This is followed by the second factor, which represents the dimension of obtaining food at a rate of about 13.198%.
- Subjects
EGYPT; PRINCIPAL components analysis; FOOD security; FOOD chemistry; CALORIC content of foods; FOOD safety; LOCAL foods; FACTOR analysis
- Publication
Zagazig Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020, Vol 47, Issue 3, p803
- ISSN
1110-0338
- Publication type
Article