because of rising incomes and spreading urbanization per capita meat consumption increased from to kilograms between and nearly all of this increase can be attributed to growing demand in asia and to a lesser extent latin america combined with the growing world population changing dietary patterns imply that food production needs to roughly double by although global food production has increased at a faster pace about per cent than population about per cent it has barely kept up with food demand and unequal distribution of the increased food availability was still leaving about million people undernourished worldwide in fao