Introduction:

Food security is one of the main goals to be achieved by the authorities in Ecuador. For its part, it is described that food insecurity is a facilitator of unpleasant states in the population, generating high levels of anxiety and depression.

Objective:

To describe the behavior of food security and anxiety levels in quinoa producers in the Chimborazo province.

Methods:

A basic research was carried out, with a non-experimental, field, cross-sectional and descriptive design that included as a study population the 410-quinoa producers of the Colta canton in the Chimborazo province, Ecuador. The sample was made up of 210 farmers. The Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale was used to determine food security and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale to identify anxiety levels.

Results:

an average age of 56.67 years was obtained, female farmers predominated (60.95%) and the non-reference level of education (46.19%). 56.67% of the farmers showed food insecurity, predominating the light level (73.95%). Anxiety was identified in 45.24% of the farmers with a predominance of light anxiety (82.11%). Anxiety was present in 57.98% of the farmers with food insecurity and in 28.57% of those with food security.

Conclusions:

High percentages of farmers with food insecurity and anxiety were identified. The latter reached the highest percentage in food insecure farmers.

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