Does adaptation to climate change and variability provide household food security? Evidence from Muger sub-basin of the upper Blue-Nile, Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of continuous variables used in regression

Variable	Adopters (N = 359)		Non-adopters (N = 83)		t value	Sig.
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age of HH	46.09	12.392	42.72	13.544	2.076	0.040
Education of HH	2.58	3.470	2.33	3.212	.639	0.524
Family size	6.09	1.993	5.08	1.945	4.209	0.000
Social groups	2.72	1.319	2.24	1.274	3.057	0.003
Land ownership	2.73	1.678	1.47	1.183	8.016	0.000
Distance to market	1.59	0.858	1.88	.998	−2.457	0.016
Livestock ownership	6.85	4.893	4.92	4.870	3.249	0.001
Climate	4.44	3.328	3.43	2.073	3.501	0.001
Food security status	4508	3876.90	1549	648.59	13.487	0.000