Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh
Food consumption is an important bridge between human beings and the natural ecosystem. The change in food consumption quantity and quality can reflect the relationship between them. This study aims to explore food consumption characteristics and the drivers of food consumption patterns in Banglades...
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| description | Food consumption is an important bridge between human beings and the natural ecosystem. The change in food consumption quantity and quality can reflect the relationship between them. This study aims to explore food consumption characteristics and the drivers of food consumption patterns in Bangladesh with a fragile ecology and polluted environment. This research selected food consumption in Bangladesh as the object, food consumption data were obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the data of influencing factors mainly were acquired from the World Bank. The following results were conducted: The total and per capita food consumption showed increase as a whole, but per capita food consumption experienced decline in the middle of the research period. Food consumption patterns were divided into three types: the first type of cereal–sugar–aquatic with low food consumption quantity and few kinds of food from 1961 to 1971, the second type of cereal–sugar–oil–aquatic with increasing food consumption quantity and food kinds from 1972 to 1997, and the third type of cereal–aquatic–tuber–sugar–fruit–vegetable–meat with increasing food consumption quantity and more various kinds of food from 1998 to 2020. The characteristics of food consumption in different periods were influenced by a series of factors. The influence of economic factors was higher than other factors, relatively. According to this study, the characteristics of food consumption patterns and the relationship between food consumption and influencing factors can provide a scientific reference for the adjustment policy makers taking local food demand and natural resources conservation into consideration to achieve a sustainable development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc15d47f8423477eb04ce94f8edb8b802023-11-30T22:17:01ZengMDPI AGFoods2304-81582023-01-0112240110.3390/foods12020401Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in BangladeshMengmeng Jia0Lin Zhen1Wanni Yang2Shuang Wang3College of Tourism, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaChina Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaInstitute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaFood consumption is an important bridge between human beings and the natural ecosystem. The change in food consumption quantity and quality can reflect the relationship between them. This study aims to explore food consumption characteristics and the drivers of food consumption patterns in Bangladesh with a fragile ecology and polluted environment. This research selected food consumption in Bangladesh as the object, food consumption data were obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the data of influencing factors mainly were acquired from the World Bank. The following results were conducted: The total and per capita food consumption showed increase as a whole, but per capita food consumption experienced decline in the middle of the research period. Food consumption patterns were divided into three types: the first type of cereal–sugar–aquatic with low food consumption quantity and few kinds of food from 1961 to 1971, the second type of cereal–sugar–oil–aquatic with increasing food consumption quantity and food kinds from 1972 to 1997, and the third type of cereal–aquatic–tuber–sugar–fruit–vegetable–meat with increasing food consumption quantity and more various kinds of food from 1998 to 2020. The characteristics of food consumption in different periods were influenced by a series of factors. The influence of economic factors was higher than other factors, relatively. According to this study, the characteristics of food consumption patterns and the relationship between food consumption and influencing factors can provide a scientific reference for the adjustment policy makers taking local food demand and natural resources conservation into consideration to achieve a sustainable development.https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/12/2/401food consumption characteristicfood consumption patterninfluencing factorBangladesh |
| spellingShingle | Mengmeng Jia Lin Zhen Wanni Yang Shuang Wang Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh Foods food consumption characteristic food consumption pattern influencing factor Bangladesh |
| title | Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Changing Food Consumption Pattern and Influencing Factors in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | changing food consumption pattern and influencing factors in bangladesh |
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