Download or read book Sector and Spatial Analyses of the United States Feed Economy written by Yao H. Chuang and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector of our economy; food touches everything from our health to the environment, climate change, economic inequality, and the federal budget. From the earliest developments of agriculture, a major goal has been to attain sufficient foods that provide the energy and the nutrients needed for a healthy, active life. Over time, food production, processing, marketing, and consumption have evolved and become highly complex. The challenges of improving the food system in the 21st century will require systemic approaches that take full account of social, economic, ecological, and evolutionary factors. Policy or business interventions involving a segment of the food system often have consequences beyond the original issue the intervention was meant to address. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System develops an analytical framework for assessing effects associated with the ways in which food is grown, processed, distributed, marketed, retailed, and consumed in the United States. The framework will allow users to recognize effects across the full food system, consider all domains and dimensions of effects, account for systems dynamics and complexities, and choose appropriate methods for analysis. This report provides example applications of the framework based on complex questions that are currently under debate: consumption of a healthy and safe diet, food security, animal welfare, and preserving the environment and its resources. A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System describes the U.S. food system and provides a brief history of its evolution into the current system. This report identifies some of the real and potential implications of the current system in terms of its health, environmental, and socioeconomic effects along with a sense for the complexities of the system, potential metrics, and some of the data needs that are required to assess the effects. The overview of the food system and the framework described in this report will be an essential resource for decision makers, researchers, and others to examine the possible impacts of alternative policies or agricultural or food processing practices.
Download or read book Local Food Systems Concepts Impacts and Issues written by Steve Martinez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts written by Paula Dutko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introd. -- Literature -- Method for defining and measuring food deserts -- Descriptive analyses -- Results: comparing food desert tracts with all other tracts -- Changes in food desert tract characteristics over time -- Regression analysis: methodology -- Conclusion -- References.
Download or read book Interregional and International Economic Analyses of the World Feed Grain Economy in 1980 with Emphasis on the U S North Central Region written by Choeng-hoy Chung and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Agricultural Economics Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodity Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis written by Walter C. Labys and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984 this book remains as relevant as when it was first published. At that time the oil crises of the 1970s and the growing international debt burden highlighted the extent to which events in primary commodity markets continue to influence the economies of developing and industrialized economies alike. Commodity modelling has become a valuable tool in efforts to predict and understand the behaviour of commodity markets and thereby reduce their fluctuations. This book provides an overview of the nature of the different types of commodity model as well as their diverse applications. In non-technical language the reader is introduced to the underlying modelling methodologies, including their advantages, limitations and commodity specific implications. The book will be of interest to commodity economists, traders and analysts, economic planners and those involved in agricultural, mineral and energy modelling.
Download or read book Spatial Structure of the Livestock Economy written by George G. Judge and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.
Download or read book Agriculture In Third Wrl h written by W. B. Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... we do not yet seem to have realised that the exchange of products between countries in one part of the world but at different stages of development is no less natural, and no less profitable for the various nations, than the exchange of products which differ because they grow in different climates' (Thiinen-Hall, xg66, p. 194). There have been few attempts to study agriculture within a spatial framework, notwithstanding the quintessential importance of land as a production factor. Land is most often treated as generalized environment although it could also be considered as social and economic space-social because even the most crowded of farming communities has much greater distance between its basic social units than exist within an urban-industrial agglomeration, and economic because distances to markets, to factor sources and to information must be overcome and frequently vary by type of market, factor and information source. Modem agricultural geography has been largely preoccupied with the development of techniques and with classification, often as ends in thexnselves, or with a geographical element consisting mainly of some general locational reference or regional description. Rarely has there been an attempt to identify a spatial structure associated with some particular agricultural enterprise* or practice.
Download or read book Studies in Economic Planning Over Space and Time written by George G. Judge and published by Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Company ; New York : American Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I National and International Planning Models -- A. Economic Planning -- 2. Some Thoughts on Mature Socialism / Jan Tinbergen -- 3. On Models of Planning Regional Development in Hungary / Joseph Sebestyen -- 4. Development Planning / Wilbur R. Maki and James E. Angus -- 5. Economic Adjustment Research for Policy Guidance: An Example from Agriculture / Thomas A. Miller -- 6. Unemployment and the International Division of Labour / B. Herman -- 7. Planning for the United Arab Republic / Ragnar Frisch -- B. Static and Dynamic Input-Output Models -- 8. Interregional Input-Output: A State of the Arts Survey / Roger F. Riefler -- 9. An Analysis of United States Commodity F'reight Shipments / Karen R. Polenske -- 10. Linkages Between Industries in Urban-Regional Complexes / Stan Czamanski -- 11. Application of a Turnpike Theorem to Planning for Efficient Accumulation: An Example for Japan / J. Tsukui -- Part II Linear Planning Models over Space and Time -- A. Spatial Programming Models -- 12. Optimal Transportation Patterns or Single Commodities in Capacitatcd Networks / L J. King, E. Casetti and C.C. Kissling -- 13. An Application or a Multi-Commodity Transportation Model to the U.S. Feed Grain Economy / L.J. Guedry -- 14. A Spatial Analysisorthe U.S. Livestock Economy / G.G. Judge, J. Havlicek and R.L. Rizek -- 15. An Interregional Analysis of the United States Soybean Industry / J.V. Leunis and R.J. Vandenborre -- 16. Pricing and Allocation Models Applied to Regional Trade and Location or Industries / H.E. Buchholz -- 17. Experiences with Multi-Commodity Models in Regional Analysis / G. Weinschenck, W. Henrichsmeyer and C.H. Hanf -- B. Spatial and/or Temporal Programming Models -- 18. Recursive Programming Models: A Brief Introduction / Richard H. Day -- 19. Dynamic Micro-economic Models of Production, Investment and Technological Change of the U.S. and Japanese Iron and Steel Industries |/ Masatoshi A. Abe -- 20. An Interregional Recursive Programming Model of the U.S. Iron and Steel Industry / Jon P. Nelson -- 21. Recursive Programming Models or Agricultural Development / I. Singh -- Part III Non-Linear Models over Space and Time -- A. Spatial Programming Models -- 22. Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Livestock Products in Eastern Japan / Kozo Sasaki -- 23. A Positive Model of Spatial Equilibrium with Special Reference to the Broiler Markets / T.-C. Lee and S.K. Seaver -- 24. A Spatial Analysis of the EEC Trade Policies in the Market for Winter Oranges / P. Zusman, A. Melamed and I. Katzir -- 25. A Spatial Price Analysis of the World Wheal Economy: Some Long-Run Predictions / Andrew Schmitz and D. Lee Bawden -- B. Spatial and/or Temporal Models -- 26. An Evaluation of Policy Alternatives Facing Australian Banana Producers / J.W.B. Guise and W. Aggrey-Mensah. -- 27. Allocation and Pricing of Water Resources / J.W.B. Guise and J.C. Flinn -- 28. Allocation of Milk Through Space and Time in a Competitively Mixed Dairy Industry / Marvin W. Kottke -- 29. Temporal Equilibrium Analysis of Rice and Wheat in India / V.K. Pandey and T. Takayama -- 30. An Investigation of Agricultural Planning Models; A Case Study of the Indian's Food Economy / S.P. Pant and T. Takayama -- 31. An Exact Hume-Ricardo-Marshall Model of International Trade / Paul A. Samuelson -- Part IV Public and Private Planning Models -- 32. National and Interregional Models of Water Demand for Land Use and Agricultural Policies / Earl O. Heady and Howard C. Madsen -- 33. Evaluation of the Effect of Alternative Agricultural Systems on Water Quality: A Linear Programming Approach / E.R. Swanson and A.V.S. Narayanan -- 34. Capital Budgeting and Financial Management in Linear Programming Models / C.B. Baker -- 35. An Econometric Model of Supply, Demand and Wages of Educated Workers / H. Correa.
Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Download or read book Journal of Agricultural Economics Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Food and Fiber Sector Energy Use and Outlook written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Contribution of Infrastructure to U S Agri food Sector Output written by Tingting Tong and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of infrastructure investment or capital on private sector output and productivity has been widely discussed over the past two decades. However, only limited studies have focused on the contribution of infrastructure to the output of U.S. agricultural and food sector. Considering the importance of agriculture in U.S. economy and its strong dependence on infrastructure, two empirical analyses were made in this thesis to evaluate the output impact associated with infrastructure in agricultural and food sector in the United States. The first study examines the spillover effect of two major transportation modes, roads and rails, on agricultural output across the United States. Applying a spatial econometric model that considers spatial dependence in both output and explanatory variables to agricultural output in 44 states from 1981 to 2004, the analysis suggests that spending on road system has significant and positive direct effect on agricultural output. However, the spillover effect of road infrastructure on agricultural output in the neighboring state varies along with the order of neighboring states considered in the model. No significant direct and spillover effect of rail infrastructure is observed. The second study estimates the dynamic effects of public infrastructure on the output of 34 U.S. food manufacturing industries during the period of 1958-2005. The contribution of public infrastructures to food industry output growth is assessed using heterogeneous dynamic methods. Results suggest a positive and significant contribution of public infrastructures to the output growth in food manufacturing industry. Also, a long-run relationship is confirmed between food manufacturing output, input use and public infrastructure. Moreover, the output effect of public infrastructure is homogeneous among the food manufacturing industries in the long run but varies in the short run. The findings of both studies in this thesis have several policy implications.
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
