Background What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What
lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural options and
management strategies are likely to benefit female-headed households in particular? This
paper addresses these questions using a unique dataset of 600 households that allows us
to explore a wide range of indicators capturing different aspects of performance and well-
being for different types of households—female-headed, male-headed, food secure, food …