The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

Ayerakwa, Hayford Mensah; Dzanku, Fred Mawunyo; Sarpong, Daniel Bruce

doi:10.1186/s40100-020-00155-3

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Ordered probit estimates of participation in agriculture and food security (Techiman)

From: The geography of agriculture participation and food security in a small and a medium-sized city in Ghana

Variables		Average marginal effects
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
	Coef.	Severe	Moderate	Mild	Secure
Participation in agriculture (ref. is UandR)
Nonp	− 0.090	0.021	0.010	0.001	− 0.031
Uonly	− 0.178	0.043	0.018	0.001	− 0.062
Ronly	− 0.125	0.030	0.013	0.001	− 0.044
Female HH head	− 0.631***	0.166	0.050	− 0.003	− 0.213
Age of HH head	0.018***	− 0.005	− 0.002	− 0.000	0.006
Age of spouse	− 0.012*	0.003	0.001	0.000	− 0.004
Married HH head	0.120	− 0.030	− 0.012	− 0.000	0.042
Years schooling: HH head	− 0.011	0.003	0.001	0.000	− 0.004
Years schooling: spouse	0.138***	− 0.034	− 0.014	− 0.000	0.048
Years schooling: other adult	0.007	− 0.002	− 0.001	− 0.000	0.002
HH size	0.053**	− 0.013	− 0.005	− 0.000	0.018
Share of dependants	− 0.166	0.041	0.017	0.001	− 0.058
Received cash transfer	0.001	− 0.000	− 0.000	− 0.000	0.000
Received food transfer	0.094	− 0.023	− 0.010	− 0.000	0.033
No. of nonfarm income earners	− 0.029	0.007	0.003	0.000	− 0.010
Monthly per capita income	0.002***	− 0.001	− 0.000	− 0.000	0.001
Livestock producer	0.015	− 0.004	− 0.002	− 0.000	0.005
Owns dwelling	0.025	− 0.006	− 0.002	− 0.000	0.009
Chronically sick HH head	− 0.162	0.041	0.015	− 0.000	− 0.057
Chronically sick spouse	− 0.194	0.051	0.017	− 0.001	− 0.067
Chronically HH member	− 0.086	0.022	0.008	0.000	− 0.030
Indebted	− 0.280**	0.074	0.024	− 0.001	− 0.096
Unemployed HH head	− 0.516***	0.148	0.033	− 0.008	− 0.173
Unemployed spouse	− 0.461***	0.129	0.031	− 0.006	− 0.155
Unemployed HH member	− 0.145	0.037	0.013	− 0.000	− 0.051
μ (1)	0.014
μ (2)	0.766**
μ (3)	1.061***
Observations	1008
Log–likelihood value	− 1150
Pseudo R²	0.122

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1

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