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.
Event_Log
··1980Wartime rationing coupon system introducedCorrelationExpected causation
Amid the Iraqi invasion, a trade squeeze and food shortages, the government begins distributing ration coupons for sugar, rice, meat, cooking oil and other staples through neighborhood cooperatives; the coupon ('koopon') system remains in force through the 1980s and is phased out only toward the end of the Ahmadinejad era.
Why this link: Meat was among the goods subject to coupon rationing, though its supply also depended heavily on domestic livestock conditions.
Caveat: Domestic livestock production and drought conditions are a comparably large driver of meat consumption trends in this period.
Lag: Immediate, decade-longSource: IMF Working Paper -- Iran: The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform