Geography GCSE
Dietary transition
What Dietary transition means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Dietary transition
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Reference: AQA
Diets shifting from basic staple carbohydrates to resource-intensive products like meat and dairy as incomes rise.
Topics that use Dietary transition
- Food (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Appropriate technology
- Demographic growth
- Economic development
- Food surplus
- Poverty
- Resource-intensive products
- Soil erosion
- Water Stress
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