Table 8.
The effect of crop diversification and land use on food security among cocoa farming households.
| Variables | Coefficients | Z | Marginal effects |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Borderline | Acceptable | |||
| CDI | 2.866*** | 3.12 | 0.262 | 0.265 | 0.248 |
| Formal education | 2.358*** | 3.32 | 0.197 | 0.192 | 0.179 |
| Access to credit | 1.272* | 1.78 | 0.208 | 0.218 | 0.136 |
| Extension service | 0.224 | 0.99 | 0.078 | 0.158 | 0.140 |
| Household size | −0.779 | −1.47 | −0.589 | −0.649 | −0.308 |
| Marital status | 1.832 | 0.31 | 0.304 | 0.241 | 0.113 |
| Farm size | 0.799*** | 4.15 | 0.243 | 0.443 | 0.541 |
| Land use | 0.198** | 2.12 | 0.169 | 0.160 | 0.182 |
| Cooperative organization | 2.531 | 1.54 | 0.369 | 0.460 | 0.379 |
| Farming Experience | 1.591** | 2.49 | 0.406 | 0.410 | 0.381 |
| Off-farm income | 1.506 | 1.49 | 0.278 | 0.427 | 0.729 |
| _cons | 1.103*** | 3.93 | |||
LR chi2(11) = 134.26, Prob > chi2 = 0.0000, Log likelihood = −371.63646, Pseudo R-Squared = 0.0396 ***Significant at 1 % **Significant at 5 % *Significant at 10 %.
Source: Data Analysis, 2021