Food and Grain Consumption Per Capita in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Implications for Conservation.

ABSTRACT: Grain security is crucial for social stability and ecosystem conservation regionally and globally, and it is particularly concerned widely in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) due to its high altitude and harsh climate for agriculture. In this paper, we calculated and analyzed per capita food and grain consumption, including direct grain consumption, grain for fodder, industry consumption, seeds consumption, and wastage consumption and its changes in the QTP during 1995-2019. The results showed that (1) in 2019, the average food consumption per capita was 333.35 kg, was stable since 1995. The dietary structure of residents was composed of direct grain consumption (44.15%), meat (10.72%), and milk (6.94%). The consumption of meat and milk was higher than the national average. (2) The average

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619228 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature