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Effect of a Food Crop Development Project on Livelihood of Small-Scale Maize Farmers, Ghana
Julio César Vinay-Vadillo, José Alfredo Villagómez-Cortés, María Rebeca Acosta-Rodríguez and Clément Rocher
Corresponding Author: José Alfredo Villagómez-Cortés
Submitted: September 07, 2012
Accepted: October 05, 2012
Published: November 25, 2012 |
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The Food Crop Development Project (FCDP) was introduced with the aim of improving farm incomes,
household food security, nutrition and reducing poverty among small-scale farmers. This study sought to find
answers to the questions of whether the project improved farmers’ access to credit, improved maize output or
whether small-scale maize farmers adopted the improved maize production practices and how it impacted on maize
production. Descriptive survey was conducted and using multi-stage random sampling procedure a final sample of
130 farmers was selected. The results indicated that participation in FCDP had a positive and significant but
moderate relationship with maize output. More participants reported having easy access to credit than nonparticipants
with chi-square value of 17.29 being highly significant indicating the possible relationship between ease
of access to credit and participation in FCDP. The OLS stepwise regression analysis showed that participation, farm
size and ease of access to credit were the main predictors of maize output while participation, income and household
size were also the main predictors of food security. Thus, FCDP helped to improve the livelihoods of maize farmers
in the study area. The policy implication of these findings is that subsidized agricultural input projects like the
FCDP, have the potential to improve food security and farm incomes of peasant households.
Key words: Coping index, credit, food crop, food insecurity, income, output,
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Julio César Vinay-Vadillo, José Alfredo Villagómez-Cortés, María Rebeca Acosta-Rodríguez and Clément Rocher, . Effect of a Food Crop Development Project on Livelihood of Small-Scale Maize Farmers, Ghana. Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, (6): 395-402.
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