{"id": 1290384, "name": "Consumption of beef and buffalo meat, with projections", "unit": "tonnes", "createdAt": "2026-07-10T10:52:01.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-07-10T10:52:01.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1961-2050", "datasetId": 8039, "shortUnit": "t", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "beef_and_buffalo", "catalogPath": "grapher/agriculture/2026-07-03/meat_projections/meat_projections#beef_and_buffalo", "descriptionShort": "Quantity of beef and buffalo meat available for human consumption, with projections up to 2050.", "descriptionProcessing": "- We combine the data from the FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets with the projected consumption from FAO's 2018 report \"The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050\" (Business As Usual scenario), without any adjustment. The projections are calibrated to FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets in their 2012 base year, where both sources agree within a few percent.", "type": "int", "datasetName": "Global meat consumption, with projections to 2050", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-07-03", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "tonnes", "shortUnit": "t", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Meat & Dairy Production"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Consumption here means the quantity of food available for human consumption, as reported in FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. It includes food that is wasted at the household level and not eaten.", "Values up to the present are observed data from FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets; later values are projections from FAO's report \"The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050\", under its Business As Usual scenario.", "In the Business As Usual scenario, the world develops according to socio-economic, technological and environmental patterns that fail to address many challenges of food and agriculture, despite efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal targets. Economic growth is moderate but uneven across countries, and policies provide only limited incentives to move towards sustainability."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2030}, {"id": 2035}, {"id": 2040}, {"id": 2050}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 12579, "title": "Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population)", "description": "Food Balance Sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.\n\nThe food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.\n\nThe per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per caput food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.", "producer": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "citationFull": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population) (2023).", "attribution": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025)", "attributionShort": "FAOSTAT", "urlMain": "http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBSH", "urlDownload": "https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/FoodBalanceSheetsHistoric_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-25", "datePublished": "2023-03-10", "license": {"url": "http://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en", "name": "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO"}}, {"id": 12580, "title": "Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-)", "description": "A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period.\n\nThe food balance sheet shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption.\n\nThe per caput supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and - by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products - also in terms of caloric value and protein and fat content.", "producer": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "citationFull": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Food Balances: Food Balances (2010-) (2025).", "attribution": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025)", "attributionShort": "FAOSTAT", "urlMain": "http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS", "urlDownload": "https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/FoodBalanceSheets_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-25", "datePublished": "2025-10-28", "license": {"url": "http://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en", "name": "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO"}}, {"id": 15703, "titleSnapshot": "The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050 - Regional data", "title": "The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050", "description": "FAO's Global Perspectives Studies report \"The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050\" explores three scenarios of global food and agriculture up to 2050, based on simulations with the FAO Global Agriculture Perspectives System (GAPS) model:\n- Business As Usual (BAU): a continuation of historical trends.\n- Towards Sustainability (TSS): a shift towards more sustainable food systems.\n- Stratified Societies (SSS): a future of increased inequality.", "producer": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations", "citationFull": "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2018. The future of food and agriculture - Alternative pathways to 2050. Rome.", "urlMain": "https://www.fao.org/global-perspectives-studies/food-agriculture-projections-to-2050/en/", "urlDownload": "https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/global-perspective/csv/FOFA2050RegionsData_all.csv", "dateAccessed": "2026-07-03", "datePublished": "2018", "license": {"url": "https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I8429EN", "name": "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO"}}]}