vv 007 Life Sciences Group International Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Technology ISSN: 2455-815X CC By Citation: Ibrahim AM (2018) Food Behavior and Consumption Pattern in Rural White Nile of Sudan. Int J Agric Sc Food Technol 4(1): 007-014. DOI: http://doi.org/10.17352/2455-815X.000030 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17352/ijasft Abstract Food consumption and nutrition intakes it seem as a major problem in rural area of White Nile state in Sudan, in spite of this area is rich of food production resource, through this study we had tried to know the pattern of food consumption and nutritional intaking in this area by taking six groups of food. The measurement of food security in the State was assessing through a household survey data. The author used Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (AL-AIDS) to estimate food price and expenditure elasticities and also used the nutrient demand model, in addition to the impact of the household characteristics on food and nutrition demand behavior; the result in term of cross price elasticity showed positive sign indicating response of substitution, in addition to the expenditure elasticities for all food groups showed positive signs excluding the oil group; generally, according to the nutrient demand model the result showed the household characteristics influence the nutrition intaking for all members of family, in other hand the regional factor appears to have negative impact between localities within the study area; finally, strongly recommended that the federal government strategy and policies for food security will be directed toward to the food supply and designed to increase income and procurement power. Case Study Food Behavior and Consumption Pattern in Rural White Nile of Sudan Abdelsami Musa Ibrahim* Livestock Marketing and Resilience Programme, (LMRP)/IFAD, Sudan Received: 06 August, 2018 Accepted: 01 September, 2018 Published: 03 September, 2018 *Corresponding author: Abdelsami Musa Ibrahim, Livestock Marketing and Resilience Programme, (LMRP)/IFAD, Sudan, E-mail: abedokosti2222@gmail.com https://www.peertechz.com Introduction Food consumption and nutrition intake are very important content for food security. Where Over all country the Sudanese Federal Government are concerned on how to improve the health and nutritional status of people, FMOH [1], and this is vital to Sudan development. It’s well known that Sudan has enormous potential in terms of natural and human resources FAO (2005); but it’s not on the correct track due to several reasons to meet the Millennium Development Goals “MDG” by 2015, UNICEF [2]. Recently dependent on some studies from, SHHS [3] the nutritional indicators in Sudan found that, as Millennium Goals indicator 1.8% on hunger reduction, almost 31% of children under the age five years were underweight; 48% of children under the age five years were stunted and 18.1 % of children under five suffered from moderate or severe acute malnutrition. Majlesi et al. (2003a) [4] reported there are some of social household factors in the developing countries influence food consumption and nutrition to the children growing up such as; number of family member, education level, parents or household head job, socio-economic status, their knowledge about proper nutritional methods, prenatal care, household head age, mothers weight, newborns sex, etc. There are some previous studies displayed food consumption and nutrition as on Musaiger [5] study focuses on some factors e.g. socio-cultural and economics factors affecting food consumption in the Arab countries, in other hand, some Sudanese researchers mentioned food consumption in Sudan, but these studies ware not concentrating mainly on rural areas which have several variations in agro-ecosystem. As Samar et al. [6], where she wrote on what is determine the dietary food consumption pattern for rural household in the dry land sector of Sudan, but she ignore the other un dry region as in many parts of White Nile State of Sudan. For that we tried to concentrating just on rural household because rural people representing the vast number of the state population, so it could give an indicator about the food consumption and nutrition in rural areas of the Sudan. People in developed countries consume about 3 to 4 times as much meat and fish and 5 to 6 times as much milk products per capita as in developing Asia and Africa. Yet, meat, milk, and fish consumption per capita has barely grown in the developed countries as a whole over the past 20 years. Growth in per capita consumption and production has occurred in developing regions such as developing Asia, where income has increased from a low level and urbanization is rapid. By 2020, according to projections by IFPRI’s IMPACT model, the share of the developing countries in total world meat consumption will rise from 47 percent currently to 64 percent. The net impact on food access for the poor of the world will depend on their role as producers of meat, milk, and fish, their role as consumers, and their need for protein. The amount of cereals