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| c.10,000 BC onwards || Post {{w|First Agricultural Revolution}} era || An increase in food production is followed by a population increase, making hunting and gathering an impossible return for most of the world due to the size of human density. This time represents a change in diet and nutrition, which becomes less rich due to the proliferation of {{w|monoculture}}. Famines abound as a consequence of several risks carried by agriculture, like droughts and floods.<ref name="Was the Agricultural Revolution a Massive Fraud?"/><ref name="An Urban's Rural View"/>
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| c.18th–19th centuries onwards || Liberal capitalist era || A spectacular growth of wealth is experienced in this era. Capitalism creates abundance unmatched in human history. Famine becomes rare in those countries adopting the free market.
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| Mid 20th century onwards || Raise of {{w|overnutrition}} || Modern food production system, focused on increasing output, successfully meets, and even exceeds, the nutritional needs of consumers in developed countries. Not only it satisfies energy, protein and fat requirements, but it reduces real prices of food. One of the consequences of this is the raise rise of overnutrition among the population for the first time in human history.<ref name="Over-nutrition?">{{cite web |title=Over-nutrition? |url=http://oecdobserver.org/news/archivestory.php/aid/3215/Over-nutrition_.html |website=oecdobserver.org |accessdate=31 December 2019}}</ref>
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