Historical evolution of the spatial distribution of food production and consumption on a global scale

The following thesis tries to analyze the historical evolution of the spatial distribution of food production and consumption. For this, we analyze how spatially and temporally the food crop is distributed, that we see it as production, and how spatially and temporally the population is distributed, that we see it as food consumption. In order to analyze these two parameters we based on the analysis of data that we have available, that give us information on the amount of hectares cultivated and the population of each part of the world for the different years we analyze. With these data we reach results to be able to appreciate this spatial distribution between food production and consumption. Tone of these results is the calculation of the differences, which allows us to see different colors on maps that will indicate the places where consumption prevails, where there is a good balance between production and consumption and where production prevails and to what extent it does. Other results are the Lorenz curve and Gini index that gives us an estimate of the inequality between these two parameters. For the analysis of this data, the Matlab program was used as a calculation tool and the QGIS program was used to represent the results.