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Financial Constraint on Food Demand

Total food demand in million metric tons consists of the sum of meat demand and food demand.  It can be, however, that the monetary value of those calculated demands is greater than the financial ability of households to pay for them.  When that is the case, the food and meat demand are proportionately reduced.

financial constraint on food demand flowchart