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Factors Affecting Demand for Food
Text extracted fromThe World Food ProblemLeathers & Foster, 2004
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Age Structure
• Population Pyramids – indicate age structure
• Developing countries – have much higher
percentage of young people
• Developed countries – have even distribution
of age groups
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Momentum• Changes in age
structure affect population for decades– Example: Baby Boom
• If a developing country achieves replacement fertility rates for adults– Population growth
continues for decades – Because there are more
childrenBaby boom age pyramid
Age structure for China (1990)
Great Leap Forward Famine, 1959-1960
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Dependency Ratios• Ratio of dependents to
working adults• Burden of dependent
children per adult greater in developing country– Developed nation ex:
• 0.21 children/adult– Developing nation ex:
• .77 chlidren/adult
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Age Structure determines future calorie needs
• Calorie needs are different at different ages
• Age structure allows prediction of future calorie needs – as current population grows up
• Need for food can grow faster than the population – if more adults than children
• Adults require more food
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Other factors affecting future food needs
• Number of Pregnant women• Amount of physical activity• Height of population
– indicates nutrition level
• Population + demand/person + more meat– Huge synergistic effect
Sierra Leone 8 year old girl
More Meat• As incomes rise, people eat
more meat– less cereals
• Meat production requires plant calories
– Average 6:1 conversion ratio
• Developing countries eat 4,224 Calories from plants– 2,255 directly from plants– Plus 315 meat calories
(12.5%)• Requires 1,969 plant calories
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More Meat
• If people in developing countries ate 15% meat– Would increase total
plant calories required • to 4,591/person
– Equivalent increase in demand to 8.7% increase in population
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More Meat
• If people in developing nations ate amount of meat eaten in developed nations (27% calories)– Would require 6,200
plant-derived calories– 47% increase
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Optimistic Future Scenario: Next 50 yrs
• Per capita income increases• Population growth of 50%
– Fertility declines• Food supplies keep pace with
demand• Life expectancy increases• Average height increases• Age structure changes toward
fewer children• Food demand grows by 101%Morocco: middle income
country
Same impact if pessimistic future• Self-Correction on impact
with lower quality of life:– If prosperity declines
• Food supply doesn’t keep up with demand
• Population grows more rapidly • Less decline in fertility rates
– But need less food because• Age structure: more children• Average height: less change• Calories per capita low
– Undernutrition• Dietary diversification small
– Impact: 98% growth in food demandSierra Leone mother
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