Food consumption trends and drivers

By J. Kearney. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010

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A picture of food consumption (availability) trends and projections to 2050, both globally and for different regions of the world, along with the drivers largely responsible for these observed consumption trends are the subject of this review. Throughout the world, major shifts in dietary patterns are occurring, even in the consumption of basic staples towards more diversified diets. Accompanying these changes in food consumption at a global and regional level have been considerable health consequences. Populations in those countries undergoing rapid transition are experiencing nutritional transition. The diverse nature of this transition may be the result of differences in socio-demographic factors and other consumer characteristics. Among other factors including urbanization and food industry marketing, the policies of trade liberalization over the past two decades have implications for health by virtue of being a factor in facilitating the ‘nutrition transition’ that is associated with rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Future food policies must consider both agricultural and health sectors, thereby enabling the development of coherent and sustainable policies that will ultimately benefit agriculture, human health and the environment.

Subfields: Ecology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Teleconnected food supply shocks (2016, background): “However, recent trends of wheat, maize, and rice consumption point to continuous demand growth for these crops and a streamlining of diets in developing regions at the cost of scarcely traded crops such as millet (Kearney 2010).”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “At the same time, declines were seen in the consumption of pulses and roots over these four decades (Kearney 2010).”
Oral diseases: a global public health challenge. (2019, background): “490 Economic development has moved millions out of poverty resulting in a rapid 491 nutritional transition, defined as a set of adverse changes in diet, physical activity and 492 health.(5,124) Multi-national corporations are expanding their reach from near-saturated 493 markets in high-income count”
Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency (2020, background): “Trade can also contribute to increase the diversity of food supply in a particular country or region (Thow, 2009; Thow and Hawkes, 2009; Kearney, 2010) and can therefore ensure the resilience of a food system in times of crisis or whenever the local conditions are too adverse (Seekell et al., 2017).”
Consumer preferences for farm-raised meat, lab-grown meat, and plant-based meat alternatives: Does information or brand matter? (2020, background): “Economist have long noted the positive incomeelasticity of meat demand, and meat consumption has risen rapidly in locations such as China and Brazil over the past 40 years as incomes in those countries also increased (Kearney, 2010).”
The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models (2014, background): “FAO food balance sheets generally overestimate the amount of 85 food actually consumed when compared to dietary surveys (Kearney, 2010).”
Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures (2017, background): “As regards food consumption, a combination of population growth and increased affluence has led to a rapid aggregate and per capita increase in the supply and consumption of animal products (Kearney, 2010), which generate high environmental burdens (Westhoek et al., 2014).”
Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion: a critical perspective on a key discourse of food security in the UK (2013, background): “The FAO model predicts a continuation of the ‘substitution effect’ (Kearney, 2010) that is the structural change in the diets of people in developing countries from carbohydrate-rich staples (cereals, roots, tubers) to vegetable oils, animal products (meat and dairy foods) and sugar.”
Why we still don't eat insects: Assessing entomophagy promotion through a diffusion of innovations framework (2015, background): “Instead, overnutrition a la the obesity epidemic is the most pressing dietary concern (Kearney, 2010; Shaw, 2014).”
Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers (2020, background): “corporations (TFBCs) and their market and political activities, alongside changes in food production, processing and marketing technologies, and the failure of policies and regulations designed to protect and promote healthy diets in these new contexts.(90,91,95,96)”
Sustainable Food Security: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda (2014, background): “From this perspective, one of the phenomena that impinge mostly upon sustainable food security is the nutrition transition, which has been responsible for a dramatic global spread of diet-related diseases (Kearney, 2010).”