Human Capital Role in the Development of Food Security in Malaysia

English

Abstract

This study examines the direction of the relationship between human capital and agriculture where education and health are indicators of human capital development in this study. For indicators of agricultural development, we focus on agriculture performance and employment in agriculture. This study uses vector analysis to see the direction of the relationship between education investment, health investment, employment in agriculture and agriculture performance. The data used is secondary data with an annual period from 2000 to 2019. We found that investments in education, agriculture performance, and employment in agriculture in malaysia enter a period of maturity where there is a decline after experiencing continuous increases. This shows the existence of innovation and encouragement of educational investment to reverse the direction of agriculture performance to increase. Health investment continues to increase as the image of Malaysia with high health standards.