The effects of biofuels on food security in the Middle-East countries: Emphasizing on Iran

In most studies, the production of biofuel is a reason for increased hunger and food insecurity, while it is unknown relation between biofuels and food security in Iran. The current study aimed to investigate the relation between biofuel and food security in Iran country. We also used panel estimation techniques for estimating the relation by using dynamic panel generalized method of moments technique. The data were collected for the Middle-East Countries and specially Iran. The increased biofuels decreased 0.11 percentage food security and coefficient was not significant. Biofuels had negative and significant effects on food accessibility but they had positive and significant effects on food availability and food utilization (P<0.01). The determined coefficient was 16.598 that was significant (P<0.05). The results showed that biofuels did not have significant effects on food security in Iran country that could be attributed to a significant volume of fossil fuels and limited production of biofuels.