Food industry
The food industry is a global network of businesses that create most of the food eaten by the world's population. The food industry today are range from small, traditional, family-run activities to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes.
Many food industries also lead into local agriculture, animal farms, produce, and/or fishing.[1]
The food industry includes:
- Agriculture: raising crops, livestock, and seafood. Agricultural economics.
- Manufacturing: agrichemicals, agricultural construction, farm machinery and supplies, seed, etc.
- Food processing: getting fresh products for market ready, and create food products
- Marketing: promotion of products, new products, advertising, marketing campaigns, packaging, public relations, etc.
- Wholesale and food distribution: logistics, transportation, warehousing
- Foodservice (which includes catering)
- Grocery, farmers' markets, public markets and other retailing
- Regulation: local, regional, national, and international rules and regulations for food production and sale, including food quality, food security, food safety, marketing/advertising, and industry lobbying activities
- Education: academic, consultancy, vocational
- Research and development: food science, food microbiology, food technology, food chemistry, and food engineering
- Financial services: credit, insurance