Relationship between Food Security, Macroeconomic Variables and Environment: Evidences from Developing Countries

Lack of food is a problem of present day at national and international level, but this problem become severe in the developing countries. The aim of this study is to check the impact of Macroeconomic variables and Environment on food security in developing countries. Panel data is taken from 1993 to 2016 for Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Then LLC and IPS are used to check stationary, then the Pool Mean Group model (PMG) is applied. PMG model and panel causality tests are used for analysis. The Food Production index is used as a proxy variable of food security. Gross Domestic Product and Population have a positive impact on food production index while CO2 and Combustible renewable wastes (CRW) have also the negative relation with food production index. To increase the goal of food security, there is a dire need of national and international efforts for the better quality of infrastructure in developing countries.