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

Rural households in China have traditionally consumed food mostly grown on their own farms. While they continue to rely … purchasing more of their food as they enter the mainstream of the Chinese economy. Cash purchases of food by rural Chinese … households increased 7.4 percent per year from 1994 to 2003. Consumption has shifted from self-produced to purchased food at a …

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 …

Most American diets do not meet Federal Food Guide Pyramid dietary recommendations. On average, people consume too many … whole grains compared with a reference set of Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations appropriate to the age and gender … caloric sweeteners also reached a 27-year high. This report is the first dietary assessment to use ERSís time-series food …

safety in food. Food expenditures grow faster than quantities purchased as income rises, suggesting that consumers with … income elasticity of demand for quantity of most foods is near zero. China’s food market is becoming segmented. The demand … for quality by high-income households has fueled recent growth in modern food retail and sales of premium-priced food and …

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

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 …