Phosphorus requirements for the changing diets of China, India and Japan

Elizabeth Webeck (), Kazuyo Matsubae () and Tetsuya Nagasaka ()

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2015, vol. 17, issue 3, 455-469

Abstract: The changes in the food supply over a period of almost 50 years in the three biggest economies in Asia were examined to estimate the change in the virtual phosphorus requirements in each country over time with regard to food consumption. While the overall food supply in the rapidly growing economies of India and China grew rapidly, there are some remarkable differences in the food supply in these two emerging giant economies over time. Having undergone rapid development in the late 1970s and 1980s, Japan’s food supply stabilized with the stagnation of the Japanese economy in the mid 1990s. The implications of the changes in the food supply of these three economies are discussed in terms of the phosphorus demand for producing food for these three countries using the concept of the virtual phosphorus. Future projections were made to create a likely case scenario for the virtual phosphorus requirements in these countries in the lead up to 2050 by extrapolation and by incorporating the latest population predictions. Copyright Springer Japan 2015

Keywords: Phosphorus; Food consumption; Diet change; Sustainable nutrient management; Material flow analysis; Q32; Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10018-014-0088-8 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:envpol:v:17:y:2015:i:3:p:455-469

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... mental/journal/10018

DOI: 10.1007/s10018-014-0088-8

Access Statistics for this article

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies is currently edited by Ken-Ichi Akao

More articles in Environmental Economics and Policy Studies from Springer, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().