Examination and Evaluation of the Construct-Building Components Affective in Food Security in the Agricultural Sector

Food and nutrition security is of the main pillars of national development, showing new attitudes, needs and priorities at the level of policy and implementation in recent years. Thus, it calls for proper and comprehensive management. The present study examined the construct building components affecting food security (FS) in the agricultural sector. The data related to evaluation of the requirements for setting up a management information system in the agricultural sector of Khuzestan were collected by visiting the agricultural service centers and using a questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire needed was researcher-made, designed based on the basic research questions. The results of the study regarding the rejection or confirmation of sub-hypotheses indicated that technical requirements, economic requirements, hardware requirements, software requirements, scheduling requirements, and socio-cultural requirements all with a probability of 99%, and management requirements and legal requirements with a probability of 95% were confirmed. Economic requirements had the greatest effect on FS, followed by, respectively, technical, hardware, operational, software, socio-cultural, scheduling, legal, human resource and managerial requirements in the next priorities of the effect on FS. Thusly, management requirements had the least effect on FS, yet all requirements of the hypotheses were confirmed at the same time.