Poverty Zoning In Rural Areas of Iran with an Emphasis on Poverty

Authors

• Samira Bahramian ¹
• Ayatollah karami ²

¹ PhD holder in Agricultural Development, Department of Rural Development Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Department of Rural Development Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran

10.30495/jzpm.2021.28016.3893

Abstract

Reducing poverty and inequality are among the most important goals of planners in different societies, such that the first goal of the Millennium Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Regarding the necessity and importance of studying poverty, especially food poverty, in various provinces of the country from the planning point of view, this paper aimed to zoning the poverty line and the percentage of food poverty of rural households in Iran from 1997 to 2013.. Based on this, raw data of household income-expenditure provided by Statistics Center of Iran was applied. In this study, the basis for measuring poverty was the absolute poverty line, which was estimated based on the need for calories. In order to zoning, cluster analysis was employed using SPSS software. Findings related to the trend of minimum and maximum poverty line showed that the minimum poverty line has undergone a relatively constant trend, while the maximum poverty line has fluctuated somewhat, such that the years 2003, 2012 and 2013 had the highest value. In general, based on the results of the average percentage of total poverty from 1997 to 2013, South Khorasan province had the lowest and Tehran province had the highest percentage of food poverty. In addition, the average percentage of food poverty of rural households during the years 1997-2013 has ranged approximately between 10 to 70%. Finally, the results of cluster analysis to zoning similar provinces in terms of average percentage of food poverty showed three provinces including Isfahan, Mazandaran and Tehran had the highest percentage of food poverty, seven provinces including East Azerbaijan, Hormozgan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Fars, Gilan, Alborz and Yazd had relatively high percentage of food poverty, 19 provinces had moderate food poverty and the two provinces of North Khorasan and South Khorasan had the lowest percentage of food poverty. Therefore, planning to reduce poverty and food insecurity requires regional and geographical orientation so that the rural areas of the provinces with high percentage of food poverty be given more consideration.

Keywords

• zoning
• poverty line
• Ruralarea
• food poverty

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