Does the green economy really foster food security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Kinda, Somlanare Romuald

doi:10.1080/23322039.2021.1921911

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“…Thus, the green environment pursuit is intertwined with agriculture which subsequently affects food security. Kinda (2021) contributes to the current debate on the effect of the green economy on development through an empirical investigation of the effect of the green economy on food security in 35 SSA countries from 2001-2015. Using the two-step GMM system estimator, the author showed the controversial effects of green economy indicators on food security (food availability and the proportion of undernourished people).…”

Section: Empirical and Thematic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Environment-Social Protection Interaction and Food Security in Africa

Osabohien

Karakara

Ashraf

et al. 2022

Environmental Management

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Expanding food production to commensurate with population growth has often come at a cost resulting from environmental problems. Industries generate pollutants that destroy the environment and negatively affect the level of food security. These trends threaten the sustainability of food systems and undermine the capacity to meet food security needs. Against this backdrop, this study examines how the green environment influences food security in Africa. To further articulate the novelty and contributions of the research to the extant literature, the study also examines the interaction effect of the green environment and social protection on food security. The study engaged panel data consisting of 37 African countries listed in the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank. The data was sourced from Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) and the World Development Indicators (WDI) for the period 2005 to 2019 and applied the system Generalised Method of Moments (SGMM). The result shows that a green environment and social protection are statistically significant and positively determine the level of food security in Africa. In addition, the result shows that a green environment and social protection interaction positively and significantly influence food security. The implication is that a 1% increase in the drive for a green environment may improve the level of food security by 0.8%. Also, increases in the level of social protection intervention may increase food security by 1.2%. The interaction between social protection and food security can increase food security by 0.96%. In summary, it is found that African countries under study have moderate social protection coverage and policy for environmental management and sustainability required to drive food security. The discussions of the findings and policy implications of the study are underscored in the paper.

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Section: Empirical and Thematic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Environment-Social Protection Interaction and Food Security in Africa

Osabohien

Karakara

Ashraf

et al. 2022

Environmental Management

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“…In addition, biofuel production contributes to increased food prices. The demand for food is inelastic relative to high prices; therefore, a decline in food availability that significantly raises food prices will reduce food accessibility and increase malnutrition [ 86 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of Corruption Control on the Number of Undernourished People in Developing Countries

Nugroho

Tovar

Bopushev

et al. 2022

Foods

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Developing countries will be home to 85% of the world’s population by 2030. Hence, it is important to ensure food security for them. This effort is not easy, as the number of undernourished people (NUP) in the world has increased. We investigated the impact of food and non-production factors on the NUP in developing countries. This study employed secondary data from 57 developing countries between 2002 and 2018. These countries come from three regions, namely Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. One-step and two-step generalized method of moments (sys-GMM) models were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that the food production index, cereal import dependency ratio, economic globalization index, and human capital index had different effects on the NUP in each region. The excellent news is that corruption control can help developing countries minimize their NUP. Based on the findings, we propose efforts to improve physical and economical food access and control corruption, and developing country governments and the international community must demonstrate a strong commitment to reducing the prevalence of undernourishment.

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“…Then following the different approaches to food security (Ehrlich et al, 1993; Malthus, 1798; Sen, 1981, 1985) and previous empirical work (Kinda, 2021; Mabrouk & Mekni, 2018; Subramaniam et al, 2021), the dependent variable (FS) is rewritten for the multidimensional analysis of food security.

{\text{FS}}_{{j}}^{{it}}={\alpha }+{{\beta }}_{1}{\text{Rem}}_{{it}}+{{\beta }}_{2}{\text{Pop}}_{{it}}+{{\beta }}_{3}{\text{ArabLand}}_{{it}}+{{\beta }}_{4}{\text{GDP}}_{{it}}+{\delta }{{X}}_{{it}}+{{\varepsilon }}_{{it}},

where

{\text{FS}}_{{it}}^{j}

represents the dimension j ( j = 1, …,4) of food security for country i at time t .…”

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Effects of remittances on food security in sub‐Saharan Africa

Seydou

2023

African Development Review

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The objective of this research was to analyze the effects of remittances on food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), while assessing the role of governance.The analyses covered a panel of 26 SSA countries over the period from 2002 to 2017. Based on the double least squares method, two main results were obtained. On the one hand, remittances have a positive effect on overall food security and on each of its dimensions in SSA. On the other hand, this positive effect of remittances on food security and its dimensions is increasingly important when the quality of governance improves.

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Does the green economy really foster food security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Cited by 16 publications

References 48 publications

Green Environment-Social Protection Interaction and Food Security in Africa

Green Environment-Social Protection Interaction and Food Security in Africa

Effects of Corruption Control on the Number of Undernourished People in Developing Countries

Effects of remittances on food security in sub‐Saharan Africa

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