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Book A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System

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.

Book Influences of Economic and Social Factors on U S  Food Consumption

Download or read book Influences of Economic and Social Factors on U S Food Consumption written by Marguerite C. Burk and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Consumption in the Age of Affluence

Download or read book Consumption in the Age of Affluence written by Ben Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing affluence in the developed world, food has become an increasing focus for attention. Here, the authors argue that in order to understand the extensive and dramatic developments in the world of food, a new interdisciplinary approach is necessary. The Age of Affluence successfully addresses food consumption in this way. The volume: * argues the importance of socioeconomic and cultural factors over diet, in influencing the production, marketing and consumption of different groups of foods; * places food systems theory on sound analytical foundations; * draws critically upon food systems literature; * includes case studies from the sugar, dairy and meat systems; * employs novel statistical techniques to identify and explain distinct patterns of food consumption; The book will help to revitalize the discipline of food studies and points the way forward for the continuing study of food consumption. As such, it will be invaluable to students, researchers and policymakers engaged in the world of food.

Book Consumer Purchases Study

Download or read book Consumer Purchases Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Survey Data on Food Consumption  Uses and Recommendations

Download or read book National Survey Data on Food Consumption Uses and Recommendations written by Coordinating Committee on Evaluation of Food Consumption Surveys and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Food data collection in Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys  Guidelines for low and middle income countries

Download or read book Food data collection in Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys Guidelines for low and middle income countries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The measurement of food consumption and expenditure is a fundamental component of any analysis of poverty and food security, and hence the importance and timeliness of devoting attention to the topic cannot be overemphasized as the international development community confronts the challenges of monitoring progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In 2014, the International Household Survey Network published a desk review of the reliability and relevance of survey questions as included in 100 household surveys from low- and middle-income countries. The report was presented in March 2014 at the forty-fifth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), in a seminar organized by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Food Security, Agricultural and Rural Statistics (IAEG-AG). The assessment painted a bleak picture in terms of heterogeneity in survey design and overall relevance and reliability of the data being collected. On the positive side, it pointed to many areas in which even marginal changes to survey and questionnaire design could lead to a significant increase in reliability and consequently, great improvements in measurement accuracy. The report, which sparked a lot of interest from development partners and UNSC member countries, prompted IAEG-AG to pursue this area of work with the ultimate objective of developing, validating, and promoting scalable standards for the measurement of food consumption in household surveys. The work started with an expert workshop that took place in Rome in November 2014. Successive versions of the guidelines were drafted and discussed at various IAEG-AG meetings, and in another expert workshop organized in November 2016 in Rome. The guidelines were put together by a joint FAO-World Bank team, with inputs and comments received from representatives of national statistical offices, international organizations, survey practitioners, academics, and experts in different disciplines (statistics, economics, nutrition, food security, and analysis). A list of the main contributors is included in the acknowledgment section. In December 2017 a draft of the guidelines was circulated to 148 National Statistical Offices from low- to high-income countries for comments. The document was revised following that consultation and submitted to UNSC, which endorsed it at its forty-ninth session in March 2018 (under item 3(j) of the agenda, agricultural and rural statistics. The version presented here reflects what was endorsed by the Commission, edited for language. The process received support from the Global Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Statistics. The document is intended to be a reference document for National Statistical Offices, survey practitioners, and national and international agencies designing household surveys that involve the collection of food consumption and expenditure data.

Book Socio economic Determinants of Food Consumption and Production in Rural Sierra Leone

Download or read book Socio economic Determinants of Food Consumption and Production in Rural Sierra Leone written by John Strauss and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research paper on the determinants of food consumption and food production in rural area Sierra Leone - explains application of household economic model; reports consumption responses of five food items, agricultural price, agricultural income, certain population variables, etc.; and discusses price policy implications. Bibliography and statistical tables.

Book Agriculture  Food and Nutrition for Africa

Download or read book Agriculture Food and Nutrition for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socio Economic Determinants of Rural Household Food Expenditure

Download or read book Socio Economic Determinants of Rural Household Food Expenditure written by K. Sotsha and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides an analysis of factors that influence rural household expenditure on food using a quantile regression analysis. The objective was to investigate if there are any relationships to discern between household expenditure on food and a number of other socio-economic factors in addition to household income and household size as stipulated in Engel's law. The results indicate that indeed there are relationships that could be discerned between household food expenditure and gender, education, occupation, household income, number of people depending on household income, gender distribution by age groups and number of livestock sales per annum. However, household income has a relatively smaller effect in magnitude as compared to the rest of these factors. Furthermore, the results show that the relationships differ along the quantiles. In other words, some factors had a significant and higher effect in the lower quantile compared to the higher quantile. On the basis of such results, the study suggests that tailor-made interventions should be considered in the development initiatives that are targeting rural households as different factors affect these households differently.

Book Food  Health and Income

Download or read book Food Health and Income written by John Boyd Orr Baron Boyd-Orr and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities

Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities written by Donald Bean Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical Bulletin

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  • Author : Michigan. Agricultural Experiment Station, Lansing
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  • Release : 1955
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  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Technical Bulletin written by Michigan. Agricultural Experiment Station, Lansing and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comprehensive Dissertation Index  1861 1972  Business and economics

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861 1972 Business and economics written by Xerox University Microfilms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: