We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Globalization and food insecurity in Middle East and North Africa: A panel cointegration and causality analysis.
- Authors
Bayar, Yilmaz
- Abstract
Introduction. It was researched the role of the globalization process in partial improvements in both undernourishment and hunger through decreasing the food insecurity in sample of Middle East and North Africa region over the 1999-2015 period. Materials and methods. Westerlund and Edgerton (2007) cointegration test and Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) causality test were employed to analyze the short and long run impacts of various globalization types on the food insecurity. Results and discussion. The cointegration coefficients revealed that trade globalization, financial globalization, social globalization, and political globalization negatively affected the prevalence of undernourishment. In other words, the components of globalization decreased the food insecurity in overall panel. However, trade globalization decreased the food insecurity in Djibouti, Egypt, Israel, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, but increased the food insecurity in Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. On the other side, financial globalization reduced the food security in Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates reduced the food insecurity, while financial globalization had no significant effects on the food insecurity in Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen. Furthermore, social globalization decreased the food security in Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates and had no significant effects on food insecurity in Djibouti, Egypt, and Yemen. Lastly, political globalization reduced food insecurity in Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates, but political globalization had no significant effects on the food security in Djibouti, Morocco, and Yemen. Furthermore, the causality analysis revealed a one-way causality from trade globalization/financial/political globalization to the food security, and a two-way causality between food security and social globalization. So, the main globalization types also had significant effects on the food insecurity in the short run. Conclusions. The economic, social, and political globalization made a significant contribution to the relatively decreasing food insecurity in Middle East and North African region.
- Subjects
FOOD security; FINANCIAL globalization; COINTEGRATION; GLOBALIZATION; SOCIAL security
- Publication
Ukrainian Journal of Food Science, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
2310-1008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24263/2310-1008-2019-7-1-15