نبذة مختصرة : The research aimed to identify the level of rural women's participation in achieving family food security with its three dimensions studied in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, to identify the correlational and regresion relationships between quantitative demographic variables and rural women's participation in achieving family food security, and to determine the differences between the means of rural women's participation in achieving family food security according to qualitative demographic variables studied in the two research villages. The research was conducted on a systematic random sample of 268 rural women in the villages of Al-Shoqa in Qallin district, and Al-Rasif in Alriyad district. The data were collected by a questionnaire through a personal interview. data were analysis using: frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, Kolmogorov-Smirnov coefficient, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression using Stepwise method, Pearson's correlation coefficient, independent samples t-test,, and two-way ANOVA test. The most important results were summarized as follows: - The results showed that the rural women participated in achieving family food security in both research villages, and that the level of this participation was high in Al-Rasif village and average in Al-Shoqa village. - The results indicated a significant and positive correlation at the probability level of 0.01 between each of the studied quantitative demographic variables and between rural women participation in achieving family food security in the two research villages. - There were four variables that contribute an unique significant contribution to creating the variance in rural women participation in achieving family food security in Al-Shoqa village, as the four variables contributed 51.8% of the variance, and these variables are: family animal possession, family agricultural machinery possession, knowledge of the concept of food security, and family monthly income. - There were six variables that contribute an unique significant contribution to creating the variance in rural women's participation in achieving family food security in Al-Rasif village, as the six variables contributed 50.4% of the variance, these variables are: family animal possession, family agricultural land possession, sources of information about family food security, number of shopping times per week, food responsibility, and knowledge of the concept of family food security. - The results showed differences between the two research villages in the means of rural women's participation in achieving family food security in favor of Al-Rasif village. - The results indicated differences in the means of rural women's participation in achieving family food security according to the variable of family type in Al-Shoqa village in favor of complex families, while no differences were evident in Al-Rasif village according to family type. - The results refered that there were no differences in the means of rural women's participation in achieving family food security in Al-Rasif village according to marital status. - It was found that there were no differences in the means of rural women's participation in achieving family food security in the two research villages according to the interaction between the village and each of the following qualitative demographic variables (respondent education, respondent's husband education, respondent employment status, respondent's husband employment status, income adequacy, monthly food expenditure, shopping places, sources of food). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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