Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Variations of Food Consumption Patterns
between LDCs & DCs
- ECONOMIC
- DISPOSABLE
INCOME
- AMT OF $$ LEFT TO AN INDIVIDUAL
AFTER PAYING TAXES
- THE HIGHER THE DISPOSABLE INCOME,
THE MORE DEVELOPED A COUNTRY IS
- EG. SURGE OF DISPOSABLE INCOME IN TAIWAN = CONSUMPTION
(RICE BY 1/2x) (MEAT BY 4x) (FRUIT BY 5x) (FISH BY 2x)
- PRICING
- CONSUMPTION OF CERTAIN FOOD = PRICES
INCREASE
- FOOD CRISIS (2006 - 2008)
- 1. STAPLE FOOD PRICES SKY-ROCKETED
- 2. PEOPLE IN LDCs UNABLE TO AFFORD
- 3. 100 MORE MILLION PEOPLE FORCED INTO CHRONIC HUNGER & POVERTY
- 4. FOOD RIOTS & STREET PROTESTS BEGIN
- SOCIO-CULTURAL
- RELIGION
- MUSLIMS'S HALAL MEAT FROM EG. COWS, CHICKEN, SHEEP
SLAUGHTERED IN A PERMISSIBLE WAY OF ISLAMIC LAW
- CATHOLICS AVOID MEAT (FRIDAYS, LENT, GOOD FRIDAY)
& CONSUME FISH INSTEAD
- MIGRATION
- VAST INTERNATIONAL FOOD CULTURE
- KOREAN FOOD (KIM CHI) POPULAR IN USA & MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- JAPAN (SUSHI & SHASHIMI)
- CHINESE IMMIGRANTS (PEKING DUCK & TIM SUM)
- INDIAN IMMIGRANTS (CURRY)
- POPULATION GROWTH
- POPULATION GROWTH IN LDCS⬆ (SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA)
- FOOD CONSUMPTION IN LDCS ⬆THAN DCS
- CHANGING FOOD
PREFERENCES
- FAST FOOD CULTURE
- IN 2009: INDIA (US$1.3 BILLION) & CHINESE (US$303 BILLION) ON FAST FOOD
- ORGANIC FOOD POPULARITY
- ⬆NO. OF PPL IN DCS CONSUME MORE ORGANIC FOOD COMPARED
TO FAST FOOD
- AWARENESS OF POTENTIAL HARM TO HEALTH
- IN USA, 2011 SURVEY SHOWED 58% OF POPULATION PREFER ORGANIC FOOD
- CHANGING
DIET
- CAUSED FROM MIGRATION & GLOBALISATION
- ⬆ OF FUSION FOOD
- EG. "CALIFORNIAN ROLL" FOR NORTH AMERICANS ➡ FUSION FOOD OF
SHUSI + CRABSTICK + CUCUMBER + AVOCADO
- POLITICAL
- STABILTIY OF FOOD SUPPLY
- ⬆ FOOD CONSUMPTION (DCS): ECONOMIC ACCESS TO SUFFICIENT & NUTRIENT FOOD
- MEET DIETARY NEEDS FOR ACTIVE & HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
- ⬇ FOOD CONSUMPTION (LDCS): INSTABILITY OF FOOD SUPPLY = LIMITED
ACCESS TO ADEQUTE FOOD
- JAPAN'S MINISTRY
- INVESTING IN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
- MONITORING FOOD STORAGE
- TAKEN MEASURES TO CONTROL FOOD PRICES
- DISTRIBUTION, MOVEMENT OF FOOD GRAINS
- DISRUPTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS & CIVIL WAR
- 2010 FLOODS IN MOZAMBIQUE
- ⬆ CROP DAMAGE
- AFFECTS FOOD SECURITY & LIFESTYLES OF PEOPLE
- EG. FARMERS WHO DEPENDED ON AGRICULTURE FOR INCOMES & FOOD SUPPLIES
- FOOD SAFETY
- "MAD COW DISEASE"
- ⬇GLOBAL BEEF CONSUMPTION IN EUROPE(1990s), USA & CANADA(2005)
- "H5N1" BIRD FLU
- OUTBREAK IN SICHUAN, CHINA
- ⬇ GLOBAL CONSUMPTION OF POULTRY (2005)
- E.COLI OUTBREAK
- ⬇ CONSUMPTION OF VEGETABLES IN EUROPE