Synergistic Effects of Green Energy Adoption, Communication Technology, and Sustainable Economic Development on Food Security: Insights From Asia‐Pacific Region

This study investigates the effects of solar and wind energy, communication technology, economic development, and climate change on food security (FS) in Asia Pacific countries (Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea) from 2000 to 2022. The study employs advanced econometric techniques such as MMQR and D‐K regression approaches to evaluate data attributes. The findings of MMQR reveal that solar energy has a more significant impact on FS than wind energy across all quantiles. This suggests that adopting solar energy offers substantial benefits to the agricultural industry and enhances FS. Moreover, communication technology and economic development initially show a positive relationship with FS across all quantiles while temperature change demonstrates a consistently negative impact on FS at the 10th to 50th quantiles. The outcomes of MMQR are also verified by the D‐K regression approach. The causality tests show a bidirectional relationship among the variables. Based on the results presented, policymakers should increase funding for the infrastructure of green energy technologies and provide agricultural credit under flexible conditions. The Gradient Boosting model further highlights that communication technology is the most important factor in predicting FS, contributing 37.34% to the model's prediction, followed by solar energy at 23.45% and employment at 13.56%. This approach will enable farmers to adopt climate‐smart technologies to address climate change and improve food production. In addition, it is important to strengthen agricultural support policies that are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goals 2 and 13.