Role of Information and Communication Technologies(Ict) in Improving Food Utilization of Iranian Rural Households

Information and communication technologies (ICT) represent an important strategy that can be used in attaining sufficient, safe and nutritious food security. The main purpose of this research, performed in 2006–2007, was to identify the effectiveness of ICT in improving the food utilization of rural Iranian households. The results showed that, according to the experts& point of view, the situation of food utilization in rural Iranian households was unsuitable, but that ICT could play an important role in improving the food utilization. The results of stepwise regressions showed that informing rural people about food, improving making decision, improving the power of acquiring individual information, rural literacy, facilitators and content of old technologies were determined to account for 73% of the variance of the food utilization of rural Iranian households.