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INCOME, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FOOD CONSUMPTION
Author(s) -
GRIGG DAVID
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.1994.tb00669.x
Subject(s) - calorie , per capita , consumption (sociology) , livestock , economics , agriculture , agricultural economics , per capita income , food consumption , geography , environmental health , population , biology , demography , medicine , social science , archaeology , sociology , forestry , endocrinology
Food consumption is a function of a variety of influences that includes agricultural production, trade, food processing technology, religious taboos, the relative cost of foods, and health concerns. But a particularly powerful factor is income. This article investigates the relationship between total national calorie consumption per capita per day and income, the proportion of all calories derived from livestock products and income, and the proportion of all calories derived from cereals, roots and income. This is done (a) for selected West European countries from c. 1800 to the present and (b) by comparing over 120 nations in 1986–1988. The data suggests calorie consumption per capita and the proportion derived from livestock is positively related to income over time and cross‐sectionally, and that cereals and roots are inversely related to income.