Future of Food: Journal on Food

Does Diversified Agriculture System Improve the Diversified Diets of Households? A Panel Data Study

VIMALA VENUGOPAL MUTHUSWAMY
Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
MARI ANAND NAVANEETHA KRISHNAN
Senior Lecturer, College of Economics and Business Administration, University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Salalah, Thumrait road, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. P.O. Box 608, Postal Code-211

The study investigated the influence of agricultural diversification on the diversified diets of households in Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, data were collected from Saudi Arabia Integrated Household Survey data from 2019 to 2023. Used longitudinal research design, quantitative research approach, and panel data statistical technique of pooled and fixed effects. The panel data results show that agricultural diversification has a significant impact on a household’s food score and household’s dietary diversity score. Production diversification also has a positive and significant impact on the household’s food score and a negative and significant effect on household’s diverse dietary score. Additional factors such as farm size, market distance, and income sources also influence the food diversification score, and market distance insignificant impact on the household dietary diversification score. Specifically, farm income positively impacts household food score, while non-farm income contributes significantly to both household food score and household
diversified dietary score. The gender and age of the household head also have a significant impact on diversified household diets. The study with these significant findings emphasizes that in Saudi Arabia there should be strong agricultural policies that not only address the diversification of production in agriculture but also enforce to increase of non-farm income factors to enhance dietary diversity effectively. The study contributes novel insights into the effects of agricultural diversification on diversified diets in the Saudi context and offers implications for policy development.

Keywords : Diversified Agriculture ,Diversified Diets ,Demographic Factors ,Saudi Arabia .

Myanmar High School Students’ Perceptions of College and International Readiness in Western Society

Mark Speckien
Louisiana Tech University
Mark Speckien
Louisiana Tech University
International students are more likely to experience mental health issues and increased stress. Mental health is often surrounded by negative societal stigmas that act as barriers to seeking support and tend to lead to greater mental health concerns. International students tend to seek socioemotional support from other international student peers rather than seeking out counseling services. However, this study shows that LGBTQIA+ international students were less likely to seek socioemotional support from other international student peers due to fear of their sexual orientation being discovered and their families finding out about their identity. This study examines how LGBTQIA+ international students talk about their experiences on and off campus in relations to their socioemotional well-being. Specifically, this study sought to better understand the complexities of LGBTQIA+ students’ identities, and the challenges they faced in terms of their socioemotional well-being. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Keywords : international students, socioemotional well-being, mental health, identity development, intersectionality, LGBTQIA