Role of information and communication technologies in improving food availability of Iranian rural households
Farhad Lashgarara, Farajollah Hosseini, Mohammad Chizari · The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (The University of the West Indies) · 2009
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) represent an important strategy that can be used in attaining food security. The main purpose of research is to identify the effectiveness of ICTs in improving the food availability of Iranian rural households. The situation of food security in Iranian rural households was medium, but that ICTs could play an important role in improving the situation. Regressions analysis showed that increasing food production, transferring of new methods and technologies, improving interactions and communications, providing information about cultivation and harvest, facilitators and content of old technologies were determined to account for 71% of the food availability.