...Rebecca Owusu; Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah Dadzie; Ernest Teye Purpose Despite the importance of plantains in food security, nutrition and socioeconomic development, their production over the years has not matched up with demand, simply because of their highly perishable nature and high post-harvest...

...Angelique Kangondo; Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula; Ntengua Mdoe; Gilead Isaac Mlay Purpose This study aims at exploring the choices of livelihood strategies amongst the rural youth and how these choices relate to food security and income poverty. Design/methodology/approach The study used data from...

...Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah Dadzie; Emmanuel W. Inkoom; Selorm Akaba; Festus Annor-Frempong; James Afful Purpose The consequences of extreme climatic events that threaten food security have created the urgent need to properly adopt climate-smart adaptation techniques to improve productivity. The study...

...Akanganngang Joseph Asitik; Benjamin Musah Abu Purpose This paper assessed the causal effect of women empowerment in agriculture (WEA) on household food security in the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) zone of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study used the extended...

.... Land holding, household size, and participation in saving associations increase the probability of getting credit by 5, 11, and 20 percent, respectively. Access to credit appears to have a positive impact on food security in both actual and counterfactual cases for the current credit receivers...