Continuous threat posed by climate change caused by carbon dioxide emission has reignited global advocacy to confront its negative ramification with the greatest possible firmness. Global food security and agriculture face major challenges under climate change as a result of the potential negative effect of production and implementation of sectoral action to limit global warming. Overall, agricultural greenhouse emissions continue to rise and the analysis of superior data on emissions from farming, livestock, and fisheries can help countries identify opportunities to contemporaneously reduce emissions and address their food security. This study seeks to contribute to the recent literature by examining the causal relationship between agriculture production and carbon dioxide emissions in selected emerging economies for the period 1971 to 2013. The study, therefore, disaggregated agriculture production into crop production index and livestock production index to explicate the distinct and to find individual variable contribution to carbon dioxide emissions. By using FMOLS and DOLS, empirical results indicate that 1% increase in economic growth, crop production index, and livestock production index will cause a proportional increase in carbon dioxide emission by 17%, 28%, and 28% correspondingly, while 1% increase in energy consumption and population improves the environment of emerging economies. The direction of causality among the variables was, accordingly, examined using PMG estimator. Potentially, for emerging countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring zero hunger for their citizenry requires the need to alter their farming production techniques and also adopt agricultural technology method, which is more environmentally friendly.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975 to identify and analyze national and international strategies and policies for meeting the food needs of the developing world on a sustainable basis, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries. IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium.

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1. Introduction Every business organization needs factors of production to be able to survive and make meaningful impact in its area of operation. Factors such as land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship are factors known to influence production so far as businesses are concerned. Notwithstanding the above traditional factors of production, there are equally some factors like time, government policies, technical know-how, inflationary periods and exchange rates that can positively or negative affect the production levels of a business organisation. 1.1. Literature Review Unemployment (or Joblessness) occurs when people are without work and are seeking for work (Romer 2011). For Keynes (2016) a person is unemployed if the person is (a) not working (b) currently not having available work and (c) seeking work. According to ILO report. (2010) over 197 million people globally or 6% of the world's workforce were without jobs in 2012. Essia et al (2012) said that over 74.2 million youth were unemployed in 2012. Unemployment may have expression in the following ways namely functional unemployment, which occurs as a result of the time people take to move between jobs, structured unemployment which occurs due to mismatch of skills in labour market and classical or real major unemployment; which is prevalent in a competitive labour market when labour is pushed above the equilibrium. There is also voluntary unemployment where people choose to remain unemployed and finally demand deficiency or cyclical unemployment which occurs when the economy is below full capacity For example in recession