Determining Various Urban & Rural Deciles Food Optimal Basket in Iran
Subject Areas : Applied Economics
کامبیز هژیر کیانی
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سیدشایسته واردی
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Keywords: food optimal basket, nutrients, Linear Programming, Food security,
Abstract :
Food security & healthy nutrition are considered as the most significant human needs and a factor for economic growth and development of the countries. Consumer culture and financial potential are two key factors for the individual in society to access proper food and take in the required food stuff & nutrients that among this government also plays it role in order to increase financial capability and use supporting tools to direct the society consumer culture .therefor this main aim in this article is to determine of the optimal food basket based on two factors as financial potential and food knowledge .So that this basket has been determined each person monthly in various income deciles and also separating city (household sample 18729) and village (household sample19787) for the year 2011 by using modeling different expenditures and considering the collection of 24 food stuff and 30 nutrients. The results indicates that the monetary (rials) value of the food optimal basket of an urban person is more than the rural .this difference is meaningful in high income deciles .Analyzing between present & optimal food basket shift implies that the first 4 income deciles in urban area and the first 5 income deciles in rural area need supports from the government to achieve food security.