Escalating food costs over the past few years have prompted 56% if Americans to change their diets from what they were eating two years ago, according to results of a in a new global survey by Oxfam. The survey results were released ahead of next week’s meeting in France of agriculture ministers from the G20 countries, where they are expected to discuss the global food price crisis.
Oxfam also launched Grow, a new campaign to ensure everyone around the world has enough to eat. Of 16,000 people polled in 17 countries, 39% blamed the rising price of food for changing their eating habits. Soaring prices are the biggest food worry with 73% of Americans, and 66% of people globally citing it as one of their top concerns. In fact, 43% of those polled said the nutritional value of the food they and their families ate was also a key concern.
Data also revealed 54% of people questioned globally and 56% in the United States said they are not eating the same food as they did two years ago. Globally, 39% said their diet had changed because food is becoming too expensive, and 33% cited health reasons. Domestically, 31% of Americans cited the cost of food, and 49% cited health reasons.
Global hunger also is a rising concern. Eight percent 8% of Americans reported they sometimes, rarely or never had enough to eat on a daily basis, compared to one in five people surveyed in developing countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, Ghana, Mexico, India and Guatemala. In very poor countries such as Tanzania and Kenya, 21% said they rarely or never had enough to eat.
In January, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its report that revealed global food prices reached a record high in December 2010, outpacing 2008 levels that prompted riots in 61 countries. FAO estimated that global food production will have to increase at least 70 percent by 2050 as the world population expands to 9.1 billion from about 6.8 billion last year.
Oxfam also launched Grow, a new campaign to ensure everyone around the world has enough to eat. Of 16,000 people polled in 17 countries, 39% blamed the rising price of food for changing their eating habits. Soaring prices are the biggest food worry with 73% of Americans, and 66% of people globally citing it as one of their top concerns. In fact, 43% of those polled said the nutritional value of the food they and their families ate was also a key concern.
Data also revealed 54% of people questioned globally and 56% in the United States said they are not eating the same food as they did two years ago. Globally, 39% said their diet had changed because food is becoming too expensive, and 33% cited health reasons. Domestically, 31% of Americans cited the cost of food, and 49% cited health reasons.
Global hunger also is a rising concern. Eight percent 8% of Americans reported they sometimes, rarely or never had enough to eat on a daily basis, compared to one in five people surveyed in developing countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, Ghana, Mexico, India and Guatemala. In very poor countries such as Tanzania and Kenya, 21% said they rarely or never had enough to eat.
In January, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its report that revealed global food prices reached a record high in December 2010, outpacing 2008 levels that prompted riots in 61 countries. FAO estimated that global food production will have to increase at least 70 percent by 2050 as the world population expands to 9.1 billion from about 6.8 billion last year.
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