Will China's diet follow western diets?
Whether China's diet will follow western diets or not is an important question in predicting the future world food shortage. To address this question, world dietary patterns were grouped using the principal component analysis. The results show that China's dietary pattern is indeed moving from the developing country group toward the developed country group, but its direction is not towards the U.S. China's dietary pattern is moving toward Asian developed countries' like Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong, who depend more on seafood as protein sources than the western countries. Meats are replaced partially with fish in these countries. Estimated expenditure elasticities of meats and seafood also support the above results. This is important to consider in predicting China's future meat and feed grain demand. [Econ-Lit citation: C100, O530, Q110] © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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2000
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Authors: | Shono, Chizuru ; Suzuki, Nobuhiro ; Kaiser, Harry M. |
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Agribusiness. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 0742-4477. - Vol. 16.2000, 3, p. 271-279
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