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Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana
Farm households in Africa adopt resource allocation tools such as crop diversification to minimize risk exposure and safeguard their food and nutrition security. This study uses primary data and an ordered probit model to examine how crop diversification impacts the food security outcomes of rural f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36267607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02703-x |
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author | Appiah-Twumasi, Mark Asale, Maxwell Anamdare |
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description | Farm households in Africa adopt resource allocation tools such as crop diversification to minimize risk exposure and safeguard their food and nutrition security. This study uses primary data and an ordered probit model to examine how crop diversification impacts the food security outcomes of rural farmers in northern Ghana. The findings revealed that along with other factors like access to extension services and use of soil fertility management practices, crop diversification increased food access and reduced the food insecurity experience of households. As a result, policies targeted at improving the food and nutrition security of peasant households should promote adoption of diversified crop production and use of sustainable soil management practices like composting. |
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spelling | pubmed-95689562022-10-16 Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana Appiah-Twumasi, Mark Asale, Maxwell Anamdare Environ Dev Sustain Article Farm households in Africa adopt resource allocation tools such as crop diversification to minimize risk exposure and safeguard their food and nutrition security. This study uses primary data and an ordered probit model to examine how crop diversification impacts the food security outcomes of rural farmers in northern Ghana. The findings revealed that along with other factors like access to extension services and use of soil fertility management practices, crop diversification increased food access and reduced the food insecurity experience of households. As a result, policies targeted at improving the food and nutrition security of peasant households should promote adoption of diversified crop production and use of sustainable soil management practices like composting. Springer Netherlands 2022-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9568956/ /pubmed/36267607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02703-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Appiah-Twumasi, Mark Asale, Maxwell Anamdare Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title | Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title_full | Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title_fullStr | Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title_short | Crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in Northern Ghana |
title_sort | crop diversification and farm household food and nutrition security in northern ghana |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36267607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02703-x |
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