Agrifood Economics

How to meet the needs of an evolving food system

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 4
Year: 2017
Author(s): FAO

As urban food markets have grown rapidly in recent decades, so too have rural–urban food supply chains. Urbanization and higher incomes are shifting dietary patterns away from staples and towards higher-value products (fish, meat, eggs, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, and more processed foods), thus driving transformations upstream in the food system.

Publication type: Policy brief
ISSN: 2520-6540