This paper assessed the causal effect of women empowerment in agriculture (WEA) on household food security in the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) zone of Ghana.,The study used the extended probit regression with endogenous treatment to account for potential endogeneity of empowerment and food security using data from the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Feed the Future baseline survey.,All three indicators of women empowerment positively impact food security. In specific terms, when women participate in crop and livestock decision-making in the household, and when they have access to cultivable lands, their households have lower probabilities of being severely or moderately hungry. Also, crop decision-making exhibits the highest impact on food security.,While there may be several policy options to eradicate food insecurity challenges in Ghana, the policy measure of empowering women in agriculture needs attention. Priority should be given to empowering them in production decision-making.,There is the need to sensitise households on the importance of women decision-making within the household and their access to land.,In the context of the empowerment literature, from our search, this study is the first in applying the hunger scale as a measure of food security and represents the first attempt at examining the effect of women empowerment on food security in Ghana.

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加纳萨凡纳加速发展管理局区域内增强农业和粮食安全中的妇女权能

本文评估了加纳的萨凡纳加速发展局（SADA）地区的女性农业赋权（WEA）对家庭粮食安全的因果关系。该研究使用扩展的概率回归和内源性处理来解释赋权和潜在的内生性使用美国国际开发署（USAID）提供的“未来数据”基线调查得出的数据，妇女赋权的所有三个指标都对粮食安全产生积极影响。具体而言，当妇女在家庭中参与农作物和牲畜决策时，以及当她们获得耕地时，其家庭遭受严重或中度饥饿的可能性较低。此外，作物决策对粮食安全的影响最大。尽管在加纳可能有多种消除根源于粮食不安全挑战的政策选择，但应注意在农业领域赋予妇女权力的政策措施。在生产决策中应优先考虑赋予他们权力。有必要让家庭认识到妇女决策在家庭中及其进入土地方面的重要性。，在赋予权力的文献中，根据我们的搜索，这项研究是首次应用饥饿量表作为粮食安全的衡量标准，也是在加纳研究增强妇女权能对粮食安全的影响的首次尝试。