Explaining the Impact Pattern of Urban Resilience Capacity on Food Security of Urban Households during the Corona Pandemic (Case Study: Masal City)

Over the years, the corona virus has seriously jeopardized progress in reducing poverty, improving hunger, increasing health care, and improving the quality of education. The outbreak of the virus, according to international organizations, has increased the number of hungry, poor and malnourished people, and has left the world with a wave of food insecurity. In this regard, the role of urban resilience capacity at the household and community level in reducing the effects of the crisis on quality of life and restoring the original power and maintaining it during a pandemic is significant. Resilience capacity is a set of conditions that are thought to enable families to have the flexibility to deal with shocks. Resilience capacity in this paper includes three aspects of absorption, adaptiveness and variability as well as a wide range of specific capacities. The present research is descriptive-analytical, based on survey; Also, according to the analysis of the relationship between independent variables (resilience capacity) and dependent (dependent) is also in the category of correlation research. The statistical population of the study included heads of households in Masal city, sampling method, multi-stage clusters and sample size were determined based on Cochran's formula of 384 people. The aim is to explain the capacity of urban resilience to maintain food security during the Corona pandemic in Masal. SPSS and lisrel 8.80 were used for this purpose. Structural equations show that capacities have been effective in improving food security. The following capacities also reduced Corona's negative impact on food security: social and human capital, information, assets, livelihood diversity, safety nets, market access, women's empowerment, governance, and psychological capabilities such as trust for adaptation.