But in recent years, there has been growing concern about erosion at the margin of food self-sufficiency. The supply-demand gap in the food sector is, in part, a problem of success – a consequence of a shift in dietary habits from cereal to protein based foods reflecting rising incomes, especially rural incomes.
And fourth, the new CRA rule should align evaluations and data collection to bank size and type. One of the strengths of the banking sector is its diversity of institutions, so a modern CRA must accommodate banks of different sizes and business models and ensure that smaller banks do not have the same requirements as large banks with much greater capacity.