Patterns/ variables | Pattern I: collecting food | Pattern II: famine | Pattern III: receding famine | Pattern IV: degenerative diseases | Pattern V: behavioral change |
Income | Survival from hunting | Subsistence in agriculture and livestock | Industrialisation and industrial employment | Emergence of services sectors and income rises | Income slows but disparity deceases |
Economy | Hunter-gatherers | Agriculture and animal husbandry | Agricultural revolution (crops rotation; use of pesticides fertilizers and technology) | Expansion of Industrial sectors; and emergence of services sectors | Promotion of leisure time physical activities; and worker’s efficiency and productivity rises |
Relative prices | Barter system, no role of prices | Role of mediators/ brokers in the small markets is influential than the prices | Demand and supply of foods and livestock within the country plumps the prices of plants oils and animal fats | Agricultural trade liberalization stimulates downward pressure on plants oils and animal fats | Multinational food companies control the supply and prices of differentiated brands of foods. |