Food Security and Household Management Capacity of Farmer under Agricultural Land Reform Office in Mahasarakham Province

Abstract

The research aims to study the impact of household management capacity on food security. Data are randomly collected from 595 households of farmer under Agricultural Land Reform Office in Mahasarakham Province. The result appears that food availability and food utilization are the most important components of food security. The ability of doing household accounting is weak. It also found that households with higher household management capacity have more food security than the lower ones. The factors those are important for food security is access to infrastructure and learning potentials of households.