Food Insecurity, Population Growth, Urbanization and Water Availability: The Role of Government Stability

Shazia Kousar, Farhan Ahmed, Amber Pervaiz and Štefan Bojnec
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Farhan Ahmed: Department of Economics & Management Sciences, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Amber Pervaiz: Graduate, The Superior University, Lahore 54590, Pakistan
Štefan Bojnec: Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, SI-6101 Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-19

Abstract: To examine the impact of population growth, urbanization and water availability on food insecurity, this study utilized time series data for the period of 1990–2019, from World Development Indicators (WDI), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and World Bank. The study applied an Auto-regressive distributive lag (ARDL) co-integration approach to test the hypothesized relationships among modeled variables. The study found a negative and significant association of water resources and agriculture research with food insecurity while urbanization and population growth has a significant and positive impact on food insecurity in the short-run as well as in the long-run period. Moreover, the study found that political stability has a negative and significant association with food insecurity in the short-run and long-run periods. Results also indicated that political stability significantly strengthens the relationship of water resources, and agriculture research with food insecurity while political stability weakens the relationship of urbanization and food insecurity significantly.

Keywords: food insecurity; population growth; water resources; agriculture research; political stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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