Journal Article

Food security management in developing countries: Influence of economic factors on their food availability and access

Stalbek, Bopushev, Magda, Róbert, Cubillos T., Julieth P., Vasa, László, Bozsik, Norbert

2022

Overview

The research presents an analysis of the food security policy effectiveness on the component of food availability and access in two developing countries, Colombia and Kyrgyzstan, during the period from 2000 to 2018. Determining the state of their food balance trade and the regression analysis for the Food Production Index of the countries, considering four economic indicators. Thus the study attempts to show that policies and strategies have not reached the expected results in terms of reduction of food imports dependency and strengthening of national production and export industry. Furthermore was found that among the economic indicators considered, food inflation, food imports, food exports, and extreme monetary poverty; the last one was the indicator that presented influence on the Food Production Index of both countries, during the period analyzed, showing that access was the main component that defines the food production. The results highlighted the need of integrating food security with the monetary and trade policies of these countries.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Agricultural commodities / Agricultural production / Agriculture / Analysis / Availability / Biology and Life Sciences / Developing Countries / Economic Factors / Economic indicators / Economics / Evaluation / Exports / Food / Food availability / Food production / Food safety / Food Security / Food Supply / Imports / Indicators / International trade / LDCs / Macroeconomics / Management / Medicine and Health Sciences / Natural resources / Nutrition / People and places / Physical Sciences / Policies / Population / Poverty / Regression analysis / Research and Analysis Methods / Security management / Social Sciences / Sustainability / Trade policy