Assessing the role of technological advancement in addressing food production challenges from population growth

In accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nation to end world hunger, with a focus on improving agricultural systems, productivity, and food production, especially for small-scale farmers to implement sustainable farming, technological accessibility and offering training. The study tries to investigate the impact of population growth and technological advancement on food production. The study applied dynamic econometrics methods of auto regressive distributive lag (ARDL) bound cointegration test and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), ordinary least squares (OLS) and Robust least squares (RLS) for robustness checks. The estimated outcomes display that population growth has inverse impact on food production, whereas technological development and real gross domestic product has a positive impact on food production. The study used another cointegration method and four different long-run techniques for robustness checks. The findings recommend that the government should encourage research and adoption of new farming technology from developed foreign farmers for encouraging technology transfer. The government should put on some preventive measures to reduce the high growth of population.