Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Many Asian countries are expected to undergo transformations in their economies and rapid urbanization over the next 25 years.The changes in tastes and lifestyles engendered by urban living are likely to have significant influences on food demand--influences perhaps as strong as the well-documented effects of household in comes and food prices.Changes in marketing systems and occupations, closely linked with increasing gross national product (GNP) per capita, also may influence the demand for food. Possible Causes of Structural Shifts in DietDirect per capita consumption of cereals as a staple food has declined over the past three decades in the rapidly growing economies of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, while consumption of meat, fish, and dairy products has in creased dramatically.Typically, economists have explained such changes in Asian food consumption patterns primarily as resulting from increases in disposable income and changes in food prices.
Authors: Huang, Jikun, Bouis, Howarth E.
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1522179231