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Article

Exploring the Determinants of Food Security in the Areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos

by
Phouvong Phami
1,
Jianhua He
1,2,*,
Dianfeng Liu
1,2,
Su Ding
1,
Patrik Silva
1,
Chun Li
3,4 and
Zhijiao Qin
1
1
School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
2
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information System, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
3
Asia International Rivers Center, Yunnan University, Guanxi Rd., Kunming 650091, China
4
Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Guanxi Rd., Kunming 650091, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2020, 12(2), 520; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020520
Submission received: 22 November 2019 / Revised: 24 December 2019 / Accepted: 29 December 2019 / Published: 10 January 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Exploiting Potential Functional Foods with High Health-Impact as an Example of Biodiversity Integration and Conservation)
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This article examines the driving forces of food security in the areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Khamuan, Laos. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 100 NT2 resettlement households based on the random sampling technique. A linear regression technique was used to identify the influence of household food insecurity. The result showed that household size, food price, drought, shock, household income per month, number of laborers, gender of the household head, and farmland areas are important factors for household food insecurity. Policies should focus on irrigation that will permit yearlong cultivation. This will in turn become the stimulus for a concatenation of events in the process of development. People will resettle to practice agriculture while also expanding non-agricultural employment. Businesses in skills training, fish processing, textile, services, and crafts will be created, boosting household income. With inevitable population expansion, education in family planning will also be necessary to control population in relation to available resources.
Keywords: food security; linear regression; Laos; Nam Theun2 Hydro power food security; linear regression; Laos; Nam Theun2 Hydro power

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Phami, P.; He, J.; Liu, D.; Ding, S.; Silva, P.; Li, C.; Qin, Z. Exploring the Determinants of Food Security in the Areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos. Sustainability 2020, 12, 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020520

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Phami P, He J, Liu D, Ding S, Silva P, Li C, Qin Z. Exploring the Determinants of Food Security in the Areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos. Sustainability. 2020; 12(2):520. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020520

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Phami, Phouvong, Jianhua He, Dianfeng Liu, Su Ding, Patrik Silva, Chun Li, and Zhijiao Qin. 2020. "Exploring the Determinants of Food Security in the Areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos" Sustainability 12, no. 2: 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020520

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Phami, P., He, J., Liu, D., Ding, S., Silva, P., Li, C., & Qin, Z. (2020). Exploring the Determinants of Food Security in the Areas of the Nam Theun2 Hydropower Project in Khammuan, Laos. Sustainability, 12(2), 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020520

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