Abstract: This study relates
social-demographic characteristics of Vietnamese households to their
consumption of meat. Pork and poultry constitute the majority of meat consumed
in Vietnamese households. Hence, pork and poultry consumption have great influence
on the total amount of meat consumed. Increasing pork and poultry consumption
has strongly contributed to the total meat consumption growth. Tobit models are
estimated drawing on the latest Vietnamese Household Living Standard Survey in
2010. The analysis of demand for pork and poultry in Vietnamese households
demonstrates that meat demand in Vietnam is significantly affected by
socio-economic and demographic factors of households. Understanding meat
consumption patterns will help the Vietnamese government to implement policies
to ensure food security. The policies may affect food redistribution between
rural and urban areas, ethnic groups, the poor and the rich. In addition, food
firms who wish to invest in the food market in Vietnam have to understand meat
consumption patterns and meat demand to develop suitable business strategies
and thereby contribute to increasing food security. This opens possibilities
for domestic meat supply chains like feed producers and other livestock input
suppliers, agricultural producers, processors, traders and the retail sector to
take advantage of this dynamic markets sector.
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