Environment Role in Food Security Nutrition of Rural Families(Case Study: Yazd Province)

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In recent years, environment role and its recreational function are increased in families' income. In fact, with increasing internal recreation in country, environment role and its recreational function are increased on rural families' economics and food security. This study is done for recognizing recreational effects on food security and decreasing villagers' poverty in Yazd villages. The methodology is descriptive analyzes that proportionate data type, withnonparametric tests. The results show that from inhabitants' viewpoint, environment and its recreational function have positive effects on some sub index of food security with increasing employment of active population, increasing income level, increasing food consumption per capita, decreasing stricken percent of malnutrition. Improvement of health indexes, increasing agricultural output growth, increasing population percent that have healthy water, increasing families' food variety and improvement basic capacities.Are some results also, environment role and its recreational function have negative effects on some sub indexes of food security such as annual average rate of garden ruin, increasing lands usage change, increasing risk of erosion, decreasing cultivatable land per capita, decreasing access amount of agricultural water, increasing food price and increasing income inequality. According to the Chi-Square test, in this case there is significant agreement among villages' inhabitants.  

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