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Research by the Overseas Development Institute shows that meat consumption in China has quadrupled since the economic reform programme began in 1978, but is still below European levels of 80kg a year per head. It takes 7kg of maize to produce 1kg of beef, and if Chinese levels of meat consumption were to rise from their current levels of 50kg a head per year to the 80kg a year average in Europe, maize exports would need to double. The World Bank says demand for food will double between now a 2030.