Food insecurity and sustainable urban development: a reflection on food security in the neighborhoods of Birjand city

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mohammad Eskandari sani ¹
• saeedeh Mohammad abadi ²
• Mehdi Vafaeifard ³
• javad Mohammadabadi ⁴

¹ Department of geography, unieversity of Birjand

² university of Birjand

³ Department of Geography, Birjand University

⁴ Shahid Behshti Uni

10.30495/jupm.2024.31911.4348

Abstract

Ensuring food security is one of the conditions for realizing national security and one of the pillars of economic development. During the current century, due to the disruption of the balance of this relationship, the food crisis has become one of the major challenges of urbanization. Due to the increase in the population of cities, droughts, climate changes, Covid-19, the war between Russia and Ukraine, the challenge of food security in cities has shown itself more strongly. This research has investigated the food security situation and ranking of neighborhoods in Birjand city. The type of this research is applied and developmental. In order to index and measure food security among indirect methods such as the use of income level and direct methods such as food security indicators through the standard food security questionnaire, the results show that food security is average in the citizens' society and the per capita comparison of food consumption Birjand city is low in comparison with the national and international average, and the results of cluster analysis for the spatial stratification of neighborhoods in Birjand based on the variable of consumption of basic goods, Javadieh neighborhood is at a lower level in terms of the consumption of basic goods compared to other neighborhoods. is placed Also, in the cluster analysis and spatial stratification of the neighborhoods of Birjand based on the food security variable of basic goods, the neighborhoods of Mehrshahr, Pasdaran, Javadiyeh, Jumohri, Tawheed are more similar to each other and are in a lower group than other neighborhoods. take Therefore, it is necessary for planners to adopt solutions, including urban agriculture, in order to solve the spatial inequality of city neighborhoods in relation to food security

Keywords

• food security
• urban agriculture
• urban settlements
• Birjand

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