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Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana
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In this article, the potential impact of remittances from out migration from the Upper West Region to the southern belt of Ghana for farming has become commonplace, and the authors used multivariate ordered logistic regression (MOLR) to assess the linkage between remittance and household food security.Abstract:
In recent years, out migration from the Upper West Region to the southern belt of Ghana for farming has become commonplace. The natural question that has arisen is: what is the potential impact of remittances from this migration pattern on food security in the region? Using multivariate ordered logistic regression this study assesses the linkage between remittances and household food security (derived using the HFIAS) among urban and rural households (n=1,438) in the region. The findings show that urban remittance-receiving households and rural remittance and non-remittance receiving households were more likely (OR=2.44, p<0.05; OR=2.46, p<0.001; and OR=1.49, p<0.1, respectively) to report being more severely food-insecure than urban non-remittance receiving households. The findings demonstrate that household strategies such as migration and remittances on their own are not sufficient to ameliorate the precarious food insecurity situation of the region. The study calls for development of alternative livelihoods in the region.read more
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Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle
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Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide: Version 3
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The new economics of labour migration and the role of remittances in the migration process.
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