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dc.contributor.authorDompreh, E.B.
dc.contributor.authorAsare, R.
dc.contributor.authorGasparatos, A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-20T14:42:15Z
dc.date.available2022-09-20T14:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationDompreh, E.B., Asare, R. & Gasparatos, A. (2021). Sustainable but hungry? Food security outcomes of certification for cocoa and oil palm smallholders in Ghana. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5): 055001. 1-18.
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7782
dc.description.abstractCocoa and oil palm are the major commodity crops produced in Ghana and livelihood options for hundreds of thousands of rural households. However, their production has negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Certification standards have been promoted as a market-led mechanism to ensure their sustainable production. Even though food security does not feature in the theory of change of most certification standards, there are interesting intersections. This paper assesses the food security outcomes of certification adoption among cocoa and oil palm smallholders in Ghana. We analyse 608 household surveys from two study sites using propensity score matching and multiple standardized metrics of food security such as the Food Consumption Score (FCS), the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and the Coping Strategies Index. Certified cocoa/oil palm farmers are more food secure than uncertified farmers and food crop farmers across most indicators and group comparisons. However, the differences are for most indicators not substantial or statistically significant (except the HFIAS). In fact, 65% and 68% of the certified cocoa and oil palm farmers are vulnerable to food insecurity in terms of the FCS. These results suggest that even though certification adoption can improve the livelihoods and yields of farmers, in reality it has marginal effect on food security. Certification standards would need to emphasize food security in their guidelines, theories of change and support packages to smallholders if they are to enhance food security and have a truly positive effect on the sustainability of cocoa and oil palm production.
dc.description.sponsorshipAsahi Glass Foundation Research Grant
dc.description.sponsorshipJapan Science and Technology Agency
dc.description.sponsorshipJapanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
dc.format.extent1-18
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectDietary Diversity
dc.subjectHunger
dc.subjectCrops
dc.subjectSubsaharan Africa
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectCocoa
dc.subjectCash Crops
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.subjectLivelihoods
dc.titleSustainable but hungry? Food security outcomes of certification for cocoa and oil palm smallholders in Ghana
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Tokyo
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationUnited Nations University, Japan
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeNatural Resource Management
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidDOMPREH:2021
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectCocoa
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectLivelihoods
cg.iitasubjectSocioeconomy
cg.journalEnvironmental Research Letters
cg.notesOpen Access Journal; Published online: 14 Apr 2021
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdf88
cg.iitaauthor.identifierRichard Asare: 0000-0001-6798-7821
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo
cg.identifier.issue5
cg.identifier.volume16
cg.contributor.acknowledgementsWe acknowledge the support of Kwame Kumi Kwakye (BOPP) and Isaac Duah (AELBI). We are also grateful to Samuel Avaala Awonnea (BOPP) and Vincent Akomea (Ghana Cocoa Board) for their assistance during data collection. The research forms part of the CGIAR programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The research was funded through an Asahi Glass Foundation Research Grant and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for the Belmont Forum project FICESSA. EDB is supported by a Monbukagakusho scholarship provided by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).


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