The relationship between food security and quality of life among the B40 community / Nur Nabilah Rina Kher Juhairi

The access to food security among the B40 community has become one of the major issues that need to be curbed and overcome. There is evidence that 53.6% of the B40 community have experienced food insecurity while the remaining 46.4% have never faced food insecurity. Hence, the objectives of this study were to determine the factors of food security (and insecurity) among the B40 communities in Malaysia; and whether there were any associations between demographical, macroeconomics and psychological factors on food security. The third objective was to determine the most influential factor in food security. The units of analyses for this study were the selected B40 communities which from both urban and rural areas in Klang, Selangor. The data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation, and Kendall’s Tau. The findings showed that there were significant relationship between demographical, macroeconomics and psychological factors with the access to food security. The findings also showed lack of money factor as the most influential factor in food security access among the B40 communities.