This study examines the household socio-economic characteristics and food security status of of small scale farmers in the Nanumba North District of Ghana. 150 households were sampled for this study from five communities in the Nanumba North district of Ghana. The multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select the households. The data obtained was analysed using the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM), the Binary Logit Regression Model and the Garret ranking technique. The study identified that 58% of the small scale farm households were food secure while 42% were food insecure. Estimates from the binary logit model showed that having access to credit increases a farm households probability of being food secure. It further identified unfavourable climate to be the most important food security constraint for farm households. Purchasing cheaper food was also identified as the most relevant food security coping strategy used or likely to be used by farm households. The outcome of the study has policy implications for food security programmes focused on rural agricultural households.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:362968 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Otoo, Adelaide Ekua Mrenfoa |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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