Community food security policy proposals Kamphaeng Phet Province

Abstract

Abstract
The objectives of this research were to 1) assess an adequacy of community food security of Kamphaeng Phet Province and 2) propose guidelines for the creation of household food security for Kamphaeng Phet Province. The quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used in this study. The questionnaires were distributed to 400 samples and the structured interview was used with 15 samples. The descriptive statistics were analyzed to determine frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The results showed that the overall community food security was at high level (𝑥̅=4.18, S.D=.73) food availability (𝑥̅=4.11, S.D=.38) food accessibility (𝑥̅=4.32, S.D=.34) food utilization (𝑥̅=4.08, S.D=.48) and food stability (𝑥̅=4.21, S.D=.45) The suggestions for policy proposals consisted of 1) food availability of community household 2) equal right to access on food source 3) food utilization for better life quality and 4) household circular food production.