Background Food security is a major development concern worldwide. The use of arable
lands to grow cash crops raises additional concerns, yet empirical evidence on the …

This study contributes to the literature by presenting empirical evidence on the drivers of
rural household food security, which is critical for food security policy implementation. We …

Ecosystems provide climate-change adaptation opportunities including ecosystem services,
adaptation benefits and livelihood improvement especially for natural resource dependent …

Food insecurity and poverty have been widely reported in many regions of the world,
particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Livestock ownership by rural farming households has …

The objective of this study was to investigate the determinants of food security and quantify
the impact of livelihood diversification as an adaptation strategy on the level of food security …

Agricultural activities have become increasingly organized along value chains that constitute
actors and activities that cause the flow of food from production to consumption. This change …

Multivariate longitudinal ordinal data are collected for studying the dependence between
multivariate ordinal outcomes, the changes over time and associated determinant factors …