How Global Diets Will Shift in the Next Decade: Supply Lines

Much of the West curbing an appetite for meat. India consuming more dairy. Africa lagging the rest of the world’s penchant for fish.

That’s how the world may eat in the next decade — trends that will shape trade flows and how companies that buy and sell key foodstuffs fare.

Global demand for food commodities is set to rise 15% by 2032, but the pace is slowing as the population and incomes aren’t growing as fast as before, according to an annual outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. It means expansion in output will slow too, with farmers also strained by higher input ...