Does smallholder farmers’ awareness of Sustainable Development Goal 2 improve household food security in the Northern Region of Ghana?

Table 3 Determinants of awareness of SDG2 and household food insecurity levels

Variables	Awareness of SDG2		Non-aware of SDG2		Aware of SDG2
Variables	Coef	Std. Err	Coef	Std. Err	Coef	Std. Err
Household size	− 0.0064	0.0128	0.0100	0.0176	− 0.0109	0.0323
Education of household head	0.0630*	0.0354	− 0.0612	0.0494	− 0.0963	0.0657
Distance to regional capital	− 0.0067**	0.0029	0.0028	0.0032	0.0115	0.0088
Age	0.0222*	0.0114	0.0051	0.0128	− 0.0500**	0.0200
Engagement in off-farm	− 0.0071	0.2871	0.0006	0.2974	− 0.9135	0.6847
Opinion leader	0.3818	0.3103	− 0.6164*	0.3545	− 0.6706	0.7919
Face-to-face extension contacts	− 0.0096	0.0758	− 0.1545*	0.0873	− 0.4886*	0.2554
Access to e-extension	0.7128**	0.3606	− 0.1330	0.4340	− 2.4033**	0.9537
FBO membership	0.6622*	0.3497	− 0.5434	0.4210	− 0.4667	1.0196
Training on crop production	− 0.4046	0.3612	− 1.3472***	0.4195	1.3369	0.9665
Farm size	0.0649***	0.0228	− 0.0395	0.0343	− 0.0438	0.0502
Animal diversity			0.2082*	0.1127	− 0.7921***	0.2625
Crop diversity			− 0.0290	0.1152	0.1535	0.2292
Ownership of radio	0.0218*	0.0127
_cons	− 1.2905*	0.6625
/cut_01	0.1948	0.7777	Wald Chi² (12) = 46.47***
/cut_02	1.6534**	0.7860	Log-likelihood = − 47,061.85
/cut_03	10.0683	83,731.260	Prob > Chi² = 0.0000
/cut_11	− 7.0227		Test of independent treatment and outcome, treated group = 12.05 (Prob = 0.000)
/cut_12	− 4.3106***	0.7230
/cut_13	9.9975	69,158.610	Test of distinct regimes = 7.24 (Prob = 0.01)
/lambda0	− 0.6456
/lambda1	− 2.8698***	0.8266

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