Eighty-four percent of U.S. households with children were food secure throughout 2007, meaning that they had consistent … access to adequate food for active, healthy lives for all household members. Nearly 16 percent of households with children … were food insecure sometime during the year, including 8.3 percent in which children were food insecure and 0.8 percent in …

-value products. Globalization has provided countries with easier access to capital and technology needed to produce processed food …

Consumer demand for food is an important component of the structure within which various agricultural policies have … been formulated. To provide a model for food consumption forecasts and analyses of food program effects, a complete set of … food demand relationships consisting of direct-and cross-price elasticities, and expenditure (income) a1asticities was …

high returns per dollar spent. These returns include benefits not only to the farm sector but also to the food industry and …

Recent studies show that average diets differ considerably from Food Guide Pyramid recommendations. The gap between … vegetables, notably dark-green leafy and deep-yellow vegetables, and dry beans, peas, and lentils. The change in food consumption … needed to meet Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations will result in adjustments in U.S. agricultural production, trade …

This report examines major trends in the amount of food available for consumption in the United States between 1970 and … 2005 using data from the ERS Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System. The report also estimates whether Americans are … meeting Federal dietary recommendations for each of the major food groups by comparing the data with dietary recommendations …

. Development of transportation infrastructure and market channels will make it easier for food products to reach consumers. China …