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. 2024 Aug 15;10(16):e35913. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35913

Table 5.

Two-system GMM results on the effects of investments in agric. Innovation on average dietary energy supply adequacy prevalence of under-nourishment.


Average Dietary Energy Supply Adequacy
Prevalence of Under-Nourishment
Baseline Models Agric. Res. Agric. R&D Baseline Models Agric. Res. Agric. R&D
Average Dietary Energy Supply Adequacyt-1 1.412*** 0.999*** 0.702***
(0.299) (0.246) (0.101)
Prevalence of Under-Nourishmentt-1 −0.244*** 0.711** 1.219***
(0.057) (0.354) (0.098)
Population Growth 0.014 0.046 −0.037 −0.028 −0.181**
(0.021) (0.035) (0.024) (0.160) (0.083)
Food CPI −0.036** −0.042** 0.004 0.136 0.183 0.090
(0.018) (0.017) (0.014) (0.092) (0.129) (0.077)
Food per capita −0.035 0.131* 0.089 −0.964** 0.161
(0.073) (0.076) (0.080) (0.394) (0.219)
Agric. Researchers 0.050** −0.507*
(0.022) (0.304)
Agric. R&D Spending 0.050** −0.075*



(0.022)


(0.042)
Observations 480 385 361 440 385 361
Instruments/Groups 22/24 19/24 18/24 22/24 19/24 18/24
Hansen pvalue 0.317 0.210 0.483 0.341 0.210 0.483
AR(2) pvalue 0.298 0.172 0.113 0.643 0.172 0.113
F-Statistics 140456.33 92043.00 178960.80 109089 92043 178960.80

Standard errors in parentheses ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Note: Baseline model is the original Warren's [30] model, Agric. Res. Stands for the Full-time equivalents of agricultural researchers, Agric. R&D stands for the total annual expenditures on agricultural research and development.