Access to desirable, sufficient, safe and nutritious food is one of the basic components of the development and health of a society. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) represent an important strategy that can be used in attaining food security. The main purpose of this research, performed in 2006-2007, was to identify the effectiveness of ICTs in improving the food availability of rural Iranian households. A descriptive methodology was applied in this research, through questionnaires. The results showed that, according to the experts’ point of view, the situation of food security in rural Iranian households was medium, but that ICTs could play an important role in improving the situation. The results of stepwise regressions showed that increasing food production, transferring of new methods and technologies, improving interactions and communications, providing information about cultivation and harvest, facilitators and content of old technologies were determined to account for 71% of the variance of the food availability of rural Iranian households. Moreover, the path analysis technique demonstrated that the improvement of interactions and communications had the greatest influence on determining the casual model of improving the food availability of rural Iranian households (β = 0.992).
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Material and methods 3. Results and Discussion 4. Conclusion and recommendations 5. References
키워드
Information and communications technologiesfood availabilityrural households
저자
Farhad Lashgarara [ Farhad Lashgarara, S.Mehdi Mirdamadi and S.Jamal Farajollah Hosseini Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran ]
S.Mehdi Mirdamadi [ Farhad Lashgarara, S.Mehdi Mirdamadi and S.Jamal Farajollah Hosseini Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran ]
S.Jamal Farajollah Hosseini [ Farhad Lashgarara, S.Mehdi Mirdamadi and S.Jamal Farajollah Hosseini Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran ]
보안공학연구지원센터(IJAST) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJAST)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology
간기
월간
pISSN
2005-4238
수록기간
2008~2016
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
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