| Table of contents |
1 List of Acronyms 7
2 Preface 7
3 Executive Summary 7
3.1 Why a Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis in Ghana? 7
3.2 Scope and Methods 7
3.3 How many food insecure and vulnerable people are there and where do they live? 7
3.4 Who are the food insecure and vulnerable people? 7
3.5 What are the underlying factors of food insecurity? 7
3.6 What are the underlying factors of malnutrition? 7
3.7 What needs to be done? 7
4 CFSVA Objectives and Methodology 7
4.1 CFSVA objectives 7
4.2 Definition, terminology and concepts 7
4.3 CFSVA stakeholders and implementation 7
4.4 Sources of data 7
4.5 Primary data collection 7
4.6 Sampling procedure 7
4.7 Survey limitations 7
5 General background on Ghana 7
5.1 Geography and climate 7
5.2 Historical Context 7
5.3 Setting the scene: poverty and food insecurity in Ghana 7
5.4 Relevant policies and programmes 7
5.5 Ghana's macro economy in brief 7
5.6 Food availability 7
5.7 Trade 7
5.8 (High) food prices 7
6 Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis 7
6.1 Asset Endowments 7
6.2 Natural Capital 7
6.2.1 Seasonal Calendar 7
6.2.2 Agriculture at household level 7
6.2.3 The small-scale farmer and his/her constraints 7
6.3 Human capital 7
6.3.1 Demographics, population and ethnic groups 7
6.3.2 Migration 7
6.3.3 Education 7
6.3.4 Health 7
6.4 Physical capital 7
6.4.1 Household Wealth Index 7
6.4.2 Sanitation facilities and drinking water 7
6.4.3 Housing, tenure and source of lighting 7
6.5 Economic Capital 7
6.5.1 Household participation in markets 7
6.5.2 Food and Non-Food Expenditures 7
6.5.3 Receiving and providing support 7
6.6 Livelihoods 7
6.6.1 Livelihood activities 7
6.6.2 Livelihood profiles and incomes 7
6.7 Household food consumption: Diet diversity & frequency of food consumed 7
6.7.1 Household food consumption groups 7
6.7.2 Geographic distribution of the four food consumption groups 7
6.7.3 Underlying causes of poor and borderline food consumption 7
6.7.4 Household food security profiling 7
7 Health and Nutrition 7
7.1 Health and food security: Conceptual framework 7
7.1.1 Food insecurity, poverty and health 7
7.1.2 Food insecurity, nutrition and health 7
7.1.3 Why assess health and food security vulnerabilities? 7
7.2 Current Health Situation in Ghana 7
7.2.1 Place of delivery 7
7.2.2 Health interventions: ITN usage, Vitamin A supplementation and deworming 7
7.2.3 Sub national patterns in receipt of health interventions 7
7.2.4 Disease prevalence among children 7
7.2.5 Regional patterns of childhood disease 7
7.2.6 Access to health care 7
7.2.7 Child feeding practices 7
7.3 Maternal and child nutrition 7
7.3.1 BMI of women 15 - 49 years of age 7
7.3.2 Socio economic correlated of maternal malnutrition 7
7.3.3 Child Nutrition 7
7.3.4 Socio economic correlates of child nutrition 7
7.3.5 Child growth patterns by age group 7
7.3.6 Underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition 7
7.4 Geographic distribution of vulnerability to poor health outcomes 7
8 Risks and Vulnerabilities 7
8.1 Exposure to risks and shocks 7
8.2 Capacities to cope 7
8.3 Impact of shocks on households' access to food 7
8.4 Critical risk related trends 7
9 Conclusions 7
9.1 Underlying factors of food insecurity 7
9.2 Underlying factors of malnutrition 7
9.3 Household food insecurity as a cause for malnutrition 7
10 What needs to be done? 7 |
