Purpose

The study attempted to assess the food security status of urban agriculture households in Ghana and India. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation and its effect on food security in Ghana and India were examined.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 650 urban agriculture farmers were interviewed for this study in Ghana and India. Food security status of urban households was assessed by the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, whereas the determinants of the extent of urban agriculture and its effect on food security were analysed by the use of the heteroskedastic linear regression and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression models, respectively.

Findings

From the study on average, households in Ghana were mildly food insecure, but that of India was moderately food insecure. The results further revealed that various demographic, economic, institutional and health and nutrition factors differently influenced urban food security and urban agriculture. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation positively influenced food security.

Originality/value

Several studies in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) on urban food security have been geographically limited to New Delhi, Mumbai and Greater Accra, with few studies in the Middle Belt of Ghana, and Bihar in India. Besides, there is a limited, rigorous, empirical study on the effect of the extent of UA on food security in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) individually and together. Moreover, we extend the frontiers of the methodological approach by applying the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model to understand if the factors that affect food-security accessibility based on two food security accessibility tools are correlated.

中文翻译：

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都市农业和粮食安全的程度：加纳和印度的证据

目的

该研究试图评估加纳和印度城市农业家庭的粮食安全状况。此外，还研究了加纳和印度的城市农业参与程度及其对粮食安全的影响。

设计/方法/方法

在加纳和印度，共有650名城市农业农民接受了这项研究的采访。通过使用家庭粮食不安全获取量表评估了城市家庭的粮食安全状况，而使用异方差线性回归和看似无关的回归模型分析了城市农业程度及其对粮食安全影响的决定因素， 分别。

发现

从平均研究来看，加纳的家庭粮食安全状况不佳，而印度的家庭粮食安全状况不佳。结果进一步表明，各种人口，经济，体制，健康和营养因素对城市粮食安全和城市农业的影响不同。此外，城市农业参与的程度也对粮食安全产生了积极影响。

创意/价值

在亚洲（印度）和非洲（加纳），有关城市粮食安全的几项研究在地理上仅限于新德里，孟买和大阿克拉，而在加纳中部带和印度比哈尔邦则鲜有研究。此外，对UA的程度对亚洲（印度）和非洲（加纳）的粮食安全影响的影响进行了有限，严格，实证的研究。此外，我们通过应用看似无关的回归（SUR）模型来扩展方法论方法的前沿，以了解基于两种粮食安全可及性工具的影响粮食安全可及性的因素是否相关。