An assessment of the extent and causes of food insecurity in northern Ghana using a livelihood vulnerability framework

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Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “…the effects of policies on the lives of the poor (Rakodi 1999; Barrett et al. 2001), • issues of food security (Sutherland et al. 1999; Gladwin et al. 2001; Hesselberg and Yaro 2006; Codjoe and Owusu 2011), and • the effects of global environmental change on the poor (Hahn et al. 2009).”
Livelihood adaptations to climate variability: insights from farming households in Ghana (2014, background): “In most agriculture-dependent rural African households, livestock represents wealth and serves as an important insurance mechanism because households can sell their animals to buy grain (Hesselberg and Yaro 2006).”
Customary tenure systems under siege: contemporary access to land in Northern Ghana (2010, background): “only been bedevilled with conflicts but is a process of concentration of wealth among a few (Larbi 1995; Awanyo 2003; Aryeetey et al. 2005; Hesselberg and Yaro 2006).”
Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “Indeed, Hesselberg and Yaro (2006) argue that a peasant household’s ability to obtain food in northern Ghana, especially in the lean season, largely depends on the availability of disposable livestock and poultry.”