Modeling inequality in access to agricultural productive resources and socioeconomic determinants of household food security in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 5 Measuring inequality in access to agricultural productive resources

Indicators	Category	Gini inequality index
Overall		0.361
Gender	Men	0.337
	Women	0.366
Location	Coastal	0.319
	Non-coastal	0.286
Women empowerment in agricultural decision making	Inadequate	0.341
	Adequate	0.317
Interaction between sex and location	Women who live in coastal communities	0.363
	Women who live in non-coastal communities	0.396
	Men who live in coastal communities	0.470
	Men who live in non-coastal communities	0.297
Interaction between women's agricultural decision-making and location	Women who are not adequately empowered in agricultural decision making	0.368
	Women who are adequately empowered in agricultural decision making	0.268

The Gini Index is a measure between zero (perfect equality) and one (maximum inequality) which in our case summarizes the degree of inequality in access to agricultural productive resources in the coastal and non-coastal communities in the Central region of Ghana for 2021. A Gini index of zero indicates that everyone in the community has the same access, so there is perfect equality across the population. A Gini index of one lies on the other extreme and indicates that only one individual from the whole population has all the access, everyone else has no access. Numbers closer to zero indicate less inequality, and the closer the Gini index is to one, the more unequal income is within the population considered