Food consumption patterns and economic growth. Increasing affluence and the use of natural resources

Gerbens-Leenes, P.W.; Nonhebel, Sanderine; Krol, Maarten S.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.09.013

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“…GDP per capita, which is the indicator of economic development, displays a close relationship with consumption (Gerbens- Leenes et al 2010). As income increases, so does consumption and diets become more diverse, although the consumption level in Africa is greatly below that of the world average.…”

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Historical trends of food self-sufficiency in Africa

2013

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The majority of African countries are stricken by food shortages and undernourishment, with much of the population lacking reliable access to food supplies and basic dietary requirements. In this paper, we analyze past trends of food production and consumption in Africa, both for the continent as a whole and for 52 individual countries within it. Fluctuations in the self-sufficiency ratio (SSR) are used to characterize the stability of a country's capacity to sustain its own population, and GDP per capita is taken as representative of national purchasing power. Our study shows that Africa's food self-sufficiency is lower today than it was throughout the entire study period. This is probably a result of demographic expansion, leading to a greater increase in food demand than in food production. At the national level, a decrease in SSR mainly occurred in Northern and Southern Africa, and high SSR fluctuations (i.e. low stability) always appeared in conjunction with low SSR levels. Although "low SSR-low GDP" countries face the most serious food insecurity conditions, both "low SSR-high GDP" and "high SSR-low GDP" countries also need attention.

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“…Numerous studies [47,48] have focused on how food consumption patterns changed in growing economies, like China. They have found a general pattern: with economic development, population growth rates decline, while per capita food supply increases, and thus, food consumption patterns change markedly [39]. Table 1 reveals that other developing regions also follow this pattern, at a slower pace.…”

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“…A common feature is that a decrease occurred in the average water needed to feed a person, with increasing food availability. While regions had large differences in diets, these variations in food supply have a great relevance to the differences in income levels [8,39,42]. On the contrary, differences in CWF cons are not obviously linked to income levels.…”

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“…According to FAO, the values are not equal to actual food intake, because they include other items, such as losses during transportation and storage [26]. However, from a nutritional perspective, they are still well suited for cross-regional comparisons [39]. For all food items, we linked food supply data to water footprint of consumption (WF cons ) through WF * prod .…”

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Global Changes and Drivers of the Water Footprint of Food Consumption: A Historical Analysis

Yang¹,

Cui²

2014

Water

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Abstract:Water is one of the most important limiting resources for food production. How much water is needed for food depends on the size of the population, average food consumption patterns and food production per unit of water. These factors show large differences around the world. This paper analyzes sub-continental dynamics of the water footprint of consumption (WF cons ) for the prevailing diets from 1961 to 2009 using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The findings show that, in most regions, the water needed to feed one person decreased even if diets became richer, because of the increase in water use efficiency in food production during the past half-century. The logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition approach is used to analyze the contributions of the major drivers of WF cons for food: population, diet and agricultural practices (output per unit of water). We compare the contributions of these drivers through different subcontinents, and find that population growth still was the major driver behind increasing WF cons for food until now and that potential water savings through agricultural practice improvements were offset by population growth and diet change. The changes of the factors mentioned above were the largest in most developing areas with rapid economic development. With the development of globalization, the international food trade has brought more and more water savings in global water use over time. The results indicate that, in the near future and in many regions, diet change is likely to override population growth as the major driver behind WF cons for food.

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“…Gerbens-Leenes et al [34] and Tilman et al [21] discuss the effect of economic growth on food consumption and production, by examining the change in the food supply and consumption pattern caused by economic growth (or increase in income). Ahn and Han [18] and Park et al [5] insist that increasing income can be a threat to food security on the consumption side.…”

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Effects of a Tariff Reduction on Grain Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from Country-Level Panel Data

Younghyeon

Ahn

2017

Sustainability

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This paper investigates the effects of a tariff reduction on the grain self-sufficiency and the sustainability of domestic grain production. We develop a theoretical model in which trade, tariff, and supply-demand equations are explicitly included, with the classification of food importing and exporting countries. Estimation results based on panel data for 150 countries over 17 years show that the effects of domestic tariff of food-importing countries on the grain self-sufficiency rate (SSR) are positive. This implies that market expansion through tariff reduction will have a negative effect on the importing country's food SSR and sustainable domestic supply. Using the estimated coefficients on the empirical equations, we derived the elasticities of grain SSR with respect to the tariff rate of food-importing countries. Those are in the ranges of 0.221-0.387.

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Food consumption patterns and economic growth. Increasing affluence and the use of natural resources

Cited by 187 publications

References 38 publications

Historical trends of food self-sufficiency in Africa

Historical trends of food self-sufficiency in Africa

Global Changes and Drivers of the Water Footprint of Food Consumption: A Historical Analysis

Effects of a Tariff Reduction on Grain Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from Country-Level Panel Data

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