Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin
Abstract Background The government of Benin has initiated since 2006 many policies to promote crop diversification. The aim was to help rural household to be more resilient to food insecurity. The objective of this research is to determine how crop diversification has affected the food security stat...
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| description | Abstract Background The government of Benin has initiated since 2006 many policies to promote crop diversification. The aim was to help rural household to be more resilient to food insecurity. The objective of this research is to determine how crop diversification has affected the food security status of the rural household. Methodology Primary data from 420 rural households were collected in the Collines Region in Benin. We use principal component analysis (PCA) to construct a multidimensional food security indices and a Simpson diversity index has been used to measure the degree of crop diversification. A linear regression model was used to determine the effect of crop diversification on household food security status. Results We found that crop diversification has a positive effect on household food security status. The diversity of crops grown through dietary diversity can improve household food security. In rural remote areas where household access to food depends largely on it production, crop diversification provides farmers with the different crops that they cannot access either because of the cost or because of the poor infrastructure constraints (physical access). Beyond, the results also show that some other factors are also affecting the household food security status such as access to extension services and storage facilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1729367917ba4675b96df72c5091af2f2022-12-22T02:42:05ZengBMCAgriculture & Food Security2048-70102018-11-017111210.1186/s40066-018-0233-xCrop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural BeninGilbert Onionkiton Adjimoti0George Tsey-Mensah Kwadzo1Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of GhanaDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of GhanaAbstract Background The government of Benin has initiated since 2006 many policies to promote crop diversification. The aim was to help rural household to be more resilient to food insecurity. The objective of this research is to determine how crop diversification has affected the food security status of the rural household. Methodology Primary data from 420 rural households were collected in the Collines Region in Benin. We use principal component analysis (PCA) to construct a multidimensional food security indices and a Simpson diversity index has been used to measure the degree of crop diversification. A linear regression model was used to determine the effect of crop diversification on household food security status. Results We found that crop diversification has a positive effect on household food security status. The diversity of crops grown through dietary diversity can improve household food security. In rural remote areas where household access to food depends largely on it production, crop diversification provides farmers with the different crops that they cannot access either because of the cost or because of the poor infrastructure constraints (physical access). Beyond, the results also show that some other factors are also affecting the household food security status such as access to extension services and storage facilities.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40066-018-0233-xBeninCrop diversificationFood securityPCAPolicy |
| spellingShingle | Gilbert Onionkiton Adjimoti George Tsey-Mensah Kwadzo Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin Agriculture & Food Security Benin Crop diversification Food security PCA Policy |
| title | Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin |
| title_full | Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin |
| title_fullStr | Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin |
| title_short | Crop diversification and household food security status: evidence from rural Benin |
| title_sort | crop diversification and household food security status evidence from rural benin |
| topic | Benin Crop diversification Food security PCA Policy |
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