Analysis of decision factors on coping strategies for rural households against insecurity with an emphasis on the pandemiccase study of Urban Peripheral in Zanjan

The outbreak of the corona pandemic had various effects on rural areas, one of these effects is on the process of food insecurity, followed by the strategies of rural households to deal with food insecurity. The aim of the present research is to firstly know the food security situation of the households in the studied villages and then to investigate the difference in the coping strategies of these households before and after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. The current type of research is applied and descriptive-analytical in nature. The statistical population of the current research is eight peri-urban villages of Zanjan city, these 8 villages have 3047 households, and using Cochran's formula, the number of samples required to complete the questionnaire (332) households was calculated and the questionnaires were completed using a systematic method. The method of collecting information in the form of library and field (questionnaire) and descriptive and inferential statistics (Wilcoxon test and Amos structural equations) were used to analyze the data. The research findings show that 34.14% of households have food security, 22.18% of households have food insecurity without hunger, 18.64% of households have food insecurity with moderate hunger, and 25.04% of households have food insecurity with severe hunger. In order to analyze the significant difference between the indicators of food and non-food strategies to deal with food insecurity, it shows that the most significant difference is related to the indicators of overtime other than the agricultural sector and the use of cheap food with the test statistic value of -11.33 and -14.57. The results show that the indicators of the type of household job, having a secondary job, the amount of watered land, vehicle, food inflation, household purchasing power, access to food stores and income diversity, education, size of the household and spouse's education, remittances , social bond, social trust and eating habits and patterns influence the choice of coping strategies of households in the studied villages against food insecurity.The outbreak of the corona pandemic had various effects on rural areas, one of these effects is on the process of food insecurity, followed by the strategies of rural households to deal with food insecurity. The aim of the present research is to firstly know the food security situation of the households in the studied villages and then to investigate the difference in the coping strategies of these households before and after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. The current type of research is applied and descriptive-analytical in nature. The statistical population of the current research is eight peri-urban villages of Zanjan city, these 8 villages have 3047 households, and using Cochran's formula, the number of samples required to complete the questionnaire (332) households was calculated and the questionnaires were completed using a systematic method. The method of collecting information in the form of library and field (questionnaire) and descriptive and inferential statistics (Wilcoxon test and Amos structural equations) were used to analyze the data. The research findings show that 34.14% of households have food security, 22.18% of households have food insecurity without hunger, 18.64% of households have food insecurity with moderate hunger, and 25.04% of households have food insecurity with severe hunger. In order to analyze the significant difference between the indicators of food and non-food strategies to deal with food insecurity, it shows that the most significant difference is related to the indicators of overtime other than the agricultural sector and the use of cheap food with the test statistic value of -11.33 and -14.57. ing strategies of households in the studied villages against food insecurity.villages against food insecuriThe results show that the indicators of the type of household job, having a secondary job, the amount of watered land, vehicle, food inflation, household purchasing power, access to food stores and income diversity, education, size of the household and spouse's education, remittances , social bond, social trust and eating habits and patterns influence the choice of copategies of households in the studied villages against food insecurity.villages against food insecuriThe results show that the indicators of the type of household job, having a secondary job, the amount of watered land, vehicle, food inflation, household purchasing power, access to food stores and income diversity, education, size of the household and spouse's education, remittances , social bond, social trust and eating habits and patterns influence the choice of cop