THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOOD SUPPLY SECURITY AND ENERGY SECURITY WITH THE USE OF BIOENERGY SOURCES: TURKEY PROJECTION WITH SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH

Bioenergy is an indigenous and renewable energy source derived from organic matter.Typically, organic waste and agricultural products are used as primary input sources in its production.In this study, the impact of bioenergy production on food security and energy security in Turkey until the year 2050, depending on resource usage, was modeled using a system dynamics approach.Various scenario tests were conducted using the created system dynamics model to observe how energy security and food security are affected by different variables and resource usage in Turkey.As a result, using agricultural production for bioenergy is not a sustainable policy.Besides significantly affecting food security negatively, its potential to positively affect energy security is quite limited.Consequently, it may lead to competition between food production and energy production.Therefore, considering the increasing population and food demand trends in Turkey, a bioenergy policy should be developed that does not create competition between food-oriented agricultural production and energy-oriented agricultural production, focusing solely on using waste as a resource.