The pioneering work of Malthus (1798) has suggested population growth as the most detrimental factor for food security. In the classical Malthusian theory, food shortages exist due to the presence of too many people as compared to the amount of food supply, and thus, exacerbated food insecurity in the long-run (Malthus, 1798). Empirically, Ehrlich et al. (1993), Postel (1998), Gilland (2002), Faisal and Parveen (2004), Alexandratos (2005), Schneider et al. (2011), Molyneux et al. (2012), Tian et al. (2016) and Hall et al. (2017)
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