Medición de la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional en los hogares del sector rural de El Pangui año 2014.

Abstract

In the present study we determine the food and nutrition security of rural households in El Pangui, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. Households were selected randomly. We used a survey comprised 55 including sociodemographic questions, familiar composition, production, costs, and agricultural extension. To measure food security was used the Global Household Food Security Index AHFSI (FAO, 1996) which incorporates the three elements of food security, availability, stability of food supplies and access to food. The result of AHFSI for The Pangui was 71% which shows that the food security of rural households of the canton is at a low level, although households have all food groups is not a sufficient condition to ensure food security for its members, given the limited range of foods that ingrates each group and the low availability in grams per capita/day.