As economies expand, people don’t just eat more food—they eat differently. A sweeping new study covering nearly three decades and 189 countries finds that while traditional farm jobs decline as nations grow wealthier, employment in the broader food industry—from processing plants to restaurants—remains surprisingly steady, offering better wages but also deepening gender pay gaps.
As farm jobs decline worldwide, food industry work holds surprisingly steady
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