1- Department of Natural Resource EconomicsCollege of Agricultural and Marine SciencesSultan Qaboos University
2- Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol
3- Shiraz University , tarazkar@shirazu.ac.ir
2- Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol
3- Shiraz University , tarazkar@shirazu.ac.ir
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Food security is a critical issue in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region due to its population growth, as well as geographical and climatic conditions. From one point of view, most of the countries in the region benefit from an abundance of natural resources centered on fossil fuels. From another point of view, environmental issues, particularly emissions caused by production activities, and the pressures caused by climate variability, highlight the importance of food security. Hence, the effect of climate change, energy consumption, environmental pollution and other control variables on food security in the MENA region from 1990 to 2019 is explored. According to the cross-section dependency, the second-generation panel CS-ARDL estimator is employed. The empirical results indicated that energy consumption, crop production land, CO2 emissions, and precipitation have a significant positive effect on crop production index as index of food security. Additionally, urbanization and mean temperature have detrimental effects. The findings from Dumitrescu and Hurlin causality tests indicated that crop land and precipitation have a unidirectional causal effect on food security, whereas energy consumption, CO2 emissions, urbanization, and mean temperature have a bidirectional causal relationship with food security. These findings imply that while maintaining the level of agricultural production and increasing it, the climate effects and environmental aspects of production should not be overlooked.
Article Type: Original Research |
Subject:
Agricultural Economics/Agriculture Natural Resource
Received: 2023/05/4 | Accepted: 2023/10/21 | Published: 2024/03/31
Received: 2023/05/4 | Accepted: 2023/10/21 | Published: 2024/03/31
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