Predictors of Food Security among Vegetable Farmers in South Ketu and North Ketu, Ghana

Samuel A Manu,Samuel Akuamoah-Boateng,Selorm Akaba

doi:10.47127/ijtmr.v1i2.19

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Abstract

This study set out to find the predictors of food security for vegetable producing households in the Ketu Districts of the Volta Region of Ghana. In the study area, 226 heads of vegetable farming households were purposively interviewed. The data was subsequently analysed with both food security scale score and logistic regression analysis to determine each household's food security category. The study found eight variables as the major predictors of food security; they are: age,number of children, land ownership, access to change agent, access to financial services, number of vegetables produced, amount of credit received and vegetable produce markets. It is important that change agents focus on these factors among families to improve the availability of nutritious and adequate food in households. The other implication is that the improvement of elements such as amount of credit received and the location of vegetable markets can increase food security levels in the study site and extrapolation in other vegetable producing farm areas in the country. Keywords: Food security; predictors; credit; extension agent; land size .

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We will look at the rationale or justification for the study of food insecurity, the overarching determinants of food security and literature on the meaning of food insecurity
This paper aims to examine this final context and to attempt to predict the factors which will induce food security
One identifies potential indicators of food security through reading of the literature and through the authors' knowledge of the study.The indicators signifying whether a household is food secure or not are: age, family size/number of children, land ownership, land size, access to change agents, number of vegetables produced

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We will look at the rationale or justification for the study of food insecurity, the overarching determinants of food security and literature on the meaning of food insecurity. The context of vegetable farming is multiple pronged: production under rain fed conditions needs to succeed every farming season, productivity with traditional hoe and cutlass has to be high and maintained at those levels, and supplies to local markets have to bypass poor roads, farmers must get prices for their produce at a premium to make them content. These aforementioned features and weaknesses of rain fed agriculture require one to study food insecurity in order to find a panacea. Should these predictors be confronted by local district assemblies, extension officers and policymakers, the nation will get gains in the creation of food security

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