The access to food security among the B40 community has become one of the major
issues that need to be curbed and overcome. There is evidence that 53.6% of the B40
community have experienced food insecurity while the remaining 46.4% have never
faced food insecurity. Hence, the objectives of this study were to determine the factors
of food security (and insecurity) among the B40 communities in Malaysia; and
whether there were any associations between demographical, macroeconomics and
psychological factors on food security. The third objective was to determine the most
influential factor in food security. The units of analyses for this study were the
selected B40 communities which from both urban and rural areas in Klang, Selangor.
The data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation, and Kendall’s Tau. The findings
showed that there were significant relationship between demographical,
macroeconomics and psychological factors with the access to food security. The
findings also showed lack of money factor as the most influential factor in food
security access among the B40 communities.
