Figures & data
Table 1. Description of political regimes and effects on food security policy in Ghana from 1951 to 2024.
Figure 1. Conceptual Model of the political economy of income diversification and food security in Northern Ghana.
Source: Authors’ conception.
Figure 2. Map of Ghana with Yendi and Nanumba North (Bimbilla) Municipals in context.
Source: (Ghana Survey Department, 2020).
Table 2. Variables and their definitions.
Table 3. Characteristics of the sampled respondents.
Table 4. Characteristics of sampled respondents.
Table 5. Measures of income diversity and income sources of household heads.
Table 6. Share of income sources as a distribution of farm family income.
Table 7. The sources and size of agricultural-based incomes for the sampled rural households in the Yendi and Nanumba North Districts.
Table 8. Shares of the total household income attributable to ten economic activities (NEA).
Table 9. The Poisson regression model of the count index (number of economic activities NEA).
Table 10. Multiple regression analysis of the Simpson income diversification index (overall diversification).
Data availability statement
Datasets used for analysis are available from the authors upon reasonable request.