Bovine Meat, Food Consumption
FAO publishes this commodity's food-balance elements in two domains with different methodologies (historic 1961-2013 vs current 2010-2023); they disagree materially where they overlap, so both are kept as separate labelled series rather than spliced.
Related_Laws
Laws related to this measure. Correlation = how closely this law tracks this measure's story. Expected causation = how strongly we would expect it to have moved the line. Neither is a claim of proof.
1980CorrelationExpected causationBill Concerning the Use of the 20 Billion Rials Realized from Ending the Government Subsidy on Meat Prices in Tehran and Isfahan for the Improvement of Animal Husbandry and the Revival of Traditional Rural Animal Husbandry, as Amended
Passed in 1980, this bill directed the roughly 20 billion rials in budget savings freed up by ending the government's consumer subsidy on meat prices in Tehran and Isfahan toward financing programs to modernize commercial livestock farming and revive traditional rural animal husbandry.
Why this link: Explicitly withdraws the government subsidy on meat prices in Tehran and Isfahan and redirects the funds to the livestock sector, a direct, named instrument targeting exactly the consumer price and supply of meat.
Caveat: Meat prices and consumption in 1980 were also driven by the broader post-revolution subsidy overhaul, rationing, and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, so this specific measure's contribution is real but entangled with those larger shocks.