Climate change, food consumption and food security

Evidence from Ghana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6455568
AutoresFrank Adusah-Poku (0000-0001-5513-4530, University of Ghana, autor de correspondencia), John Bosco Dramani (0000-0002-3640-2664, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Prince Boakye Frimpong (0000-0002-2829-9257, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
Año2025
Volumen11
Páginas101565-101565
Fecha de publicación2025-12-05
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSustainable Futures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2666-1888
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101565
OpenAlexW4417013792
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

Climate change is considered a principal global threat to human existence and livelihood. A significant manifestation of climate change has been experienced through the occurrence of life-threatening weather conditions such as temperature and rainfall. This study sheds light on food consumption, rainfall and temperature shocks, household food access, household dietary diversity and food security based on four objectives. These include examining the impacts of climate change on food consumption and food security; examining how climate change affects alternative dimensions of food security; evaluating the extent to which these effects vary across heterogeneous groups; and exploring possible channel(s) through which climate change affects food consumption and food security. The study relied on the three waves of the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel dataset, covering the period, 2009–2019. The temperature and rainfall data are collected from the ERA5-Land Climate Reanalysis dataset by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). We find significant effects of climate change on household food security and food expenditure. Our results indicate that high temperature pushes households away from consuming diversified foods. Household (farm) income and agricultural yield emerged as a crucial mechanism through which climate change influences household food security.

Agriculture · Climate change · Consumption (sociology) · Food consumption · Food prices · Food processing · Food security · Food systems · Yield (engineering) · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations