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DOI	10.1007/s10460-024-10546-7
	Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana
	Opoku Mensah, Seth; Ibrahim, Suglo-Konbo; Jacobs, Brent; Cunningham, Rebecca; Owusu-Ansah, Derrick; Adjei, Evans
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0889-048X
EISSN	1572-8366
英文摘要	Promoting Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) aims to increase the productive capacities of farmer households. Under FMNR, farmers select and manage natural regeneration on farmlands and keep them under production. While FMNR contributes to the wealth of farming communities, its contribution to household food security has rarely been researched. We, therefore, used a mixed-methods approach to address the research gap by measuring FMNR's contribution to food security among farmer households in the Talensi district of Ghana. We adopted the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) and Food Consumption Score (FCS) to estimate food security status among 243 FMNR farmer households and 243 non-FMNR farmer households. Also, we performed a Chi-square test of independence to compare the frequency of each food group (present vs not present) between FMNR adopters and non-FMNR adopters to establish the relationship between adopting FMNR and consuming the FCS and HDDS food groups. Our results reveal that FMNR farmer households are more food secure than non-FMNR farmer households. The HHDS of the FMNR farmer households was 9.6, which is higher than the target value of 9.1. Conversely, the HHDS of the non-FMNR farmer households was 4.3, which is lower than the target value of 9.1. Up to 86% and 37% of the FMNR farmer households and non-FMNR farmer households fell within acceptable FCS; 15% and 17% of FMNR farmer households and non-FMNR farmer households fell within borderline FCS. While none of the FMNR farmer households fell within poor FCS, 46% of non-FMNR farmer households fell within poor FCS. Adopting FMNR is significantly related to consuming all food groups promoted and benefiting from FMNR practices. The paper recommends enabling farmers in semi-arid environments to practice and invest in FMNR for long-term returns to food security.
英文关键词	Farmer managed natural regeneration; Food consumption score; Food security; Ghana; Household dietary diversity score; Talensi
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; History & Philosophy of Science ; Sociology
WOS类目	Agriculture, Multidisciplinary ; History & Philosophy Of Science ; Sociology
WOS记录号	WOS:001158592200003
来源期刊	AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/303204
作者单位	University of Technology Sydney; University of Ghana; Umea University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Opoku Mensah, Seth,Ibrahim, Suglo-Konbo,Jacobs, Brent,et al. Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana[J],2024.
APA	Opoku Mensah, Seth,Ibrahim, Suglo-Konbo,Jacobs, Brent,Cunningham, Rebecca,Owusu-Ansah, Derrick,&Adjei, Evans.(2024).Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana.AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES.
MLA	Opoku Mensah, Seth,et al."Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana".AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES (2024).