study of food import capacity effects on rural households food security in iran

one of the import indices of food security evaluation is food import capacity index. ratio of total exports to food imports is often thought to be a measure of the capacity of a country to finance its food imports using revenues from exports of goods and services. this study investigates food import capacity effects on rural households food security by calculated ahfci (aggregate household food security index) and fici (food import capacity index) in during 1983- 2009 with using vector error correction model (vecm). our finding indicates that food security was in good level and has increasing trend. also, food import capacity effects on food security in national level is positive and model estimation shows food import capacity index effects on food security in rural households' level in short run is negative and in long run is positive.