Table 4 Correlations between the three annual food security indicators’ deviations (FCS, HDDS and rCSI) and the annual mean deviations of NDVI, rainfall and maize prices for the year (Yt) in which the food security indicators were collected and for the previous year (Yt − 1) between 2014 and 2017 (*p-value < 0.05; **p-value < 0.01; ***p-value < 0.001)