Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies Vol. 7, No 4, December 2021 945 Volume and Issues Obtainable at Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies ISSN: 2519-0318 & ISSN (E): 2518-8488 Volume 7: Issue 4 December 2021 Journal homepage: www.publishing.globalcsrc.org/jafee Analysis of Livelihoods and Food Security among Rural Households of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Khadim Nabi, PhD Scholar, Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Rural Social Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan Malik Muhammad Shafi, Assistant Professor, Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Rural Social Sciences, the University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan *Corresponding author’s email: khadim213@gmail.com ARTICLE DETAILS History Revised format: Nov 2021 Available Online: Dec 2021 Purpose: This study was an effort with the aim to study livelihoods and food security status in rural areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Design/Methodology/Approach: Three districts of the province were confined and research data from randomly selected 336 households were collected. Livelihoods was analyzed by investigating livelihood strategies pursued by the households while food security status was measured through calorie intake method. Findings: The study examined that diversified livelihood strategies were pursued by the households; and noticed that farm was the prime strategy of 34.52% households while non-farm was the strategy of 65.48% households The incidence of food secure and insecure households was 57.44% and 42.56%, respectively; and FSI of the food secure households averaged 1.26 and food insecure households averaged 0.79. Implications/Originality/Value: There is dire need to provide opportunities for a sustainable livelihood strategy at household level that could ultimately move them from worse to better food security status. © 2021, The authors, under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 Keywords Livelihoods, Food Security, Farm and Non-Farm Strategies, Calorie intake method, Logit model _____________________ JEL Classification Q5, R2, R210 Recommended citation: Nabi, K. & Shafi, M. M. (2021). Analysis of Livelihoods and Food Security among Rural Households of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 7(4), 945-954. Introduction The concepts of livelihood are varying widely and dynamic as they are depending on the level of development of the targeted region or country (UNODC, 2011). The livelihood has broader meaning than income and include everything necessary for living. It encompasses the activities that undertake as well as planned by men and women to build their livelihoods and that create household’s survival means (DFID, 1999).