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Food
consumption patterns in rural Turkey and poverty
Sevtap Guler Gumus*, Fazıl
Akın Olgun and Hakan Adanacioglu
Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of
Agricultural Economics, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey.
*Corresponding author. Email:
sevtap.gumus@ege.edu.tr
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Accepted 1 December, 2009 |
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The paper investigates food consumption patterns including
total food expenditures and food budget shares, sources of
food, food expenditures by major food group and expenditures
for food consumed outside the households. The survey with
households was conducted in 2007. The survey was performed
through face to face interviews with 386 households from the
provinces. Of the total household expenditures, an average
of 42.29% constituted food expenditures. Food expenditures
varied among food groups as well. Milk and dairy products,
meat, poultry, fish and other meat products as well as
floury foods had the largest share in expenditures. As
expected, the value of food expenditures increased with
household size and income. About 56.44% of total monthly
expenditure of rural households represents the value of
consumption from own resources. The average daily food
consumption of rural households is about 3519 calories for
adults. Approximately 55% of the daily calorie intake is
composed of cereals and floury foods whereas 4.60% is
composed of meat and fish and 1.42% is composed of vegetable
group of foods.
Key words:
Food consumption,
food consumption patterns,
rural diet. |
