The impact of food production on ecological footprint in Turkey: an analysis across agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture

The ecological footprint (ECF), which has been frequently examined recently, offers a comprehensive analysis of the environment and has started to be used in Turkey. However, although it is a significant area of study in the world, food production, that raise the ECF the most, has not been the subject of much research in Turkey. In the present analysis, food production's impacts on the ECF in Turkey are analyzed with yearly statistics for the period 1961-2018. Within the frame of this analysis, both food production as a whole and agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture production, which are the components of food, were analyzed individually. In this context, four different models were constructed, and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag method was used to analyze. According to the outcomes of the analysis, food, agriculture, and livestock production raise the ECF while aquaculture production diminishes. The largest coefficient among the three sub-sectors belongs to the agriculture sector. In addition, while the use of fertilizers, agricultural land, GDP, population, and life expectancy at birth increases the ECF, the age dependency ratio decreases, and the effect of rural population differs in the models.

Dergi

ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Yıl

2025

Cilt

27

Sayı

12

Sayfa

30903-30928

ISSN

1387-585X

eISSN

1573-2975

DOI

10.1007/s10668-024-04944-4

WoS UID

WOS:001215382500001