This report provides the latest estimates by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on the amount and value of food … loss in the United States. These estimates are for more than 200 individual foods using ERS’s Loss-Adjusted Food … Availability data. In 2010, an estimated 31 percent or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds of food produced was not …

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 …

Gemeinschaftsmarketing für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel ist spätestens seit der Einführung des Absatzfondsgesetzes im … zum Gemeinschaftsmarketing für Agrarprodukte und Lebensmittel und dem derzeitigen Organisationsaufbau ein Blick auf andere …

policy issues: from biofuels to food consumption to land conservation to patterns of trade for agricultural products. What …

The world food crisis has brought about heated discussions on policy responses and actions to achieve future stability … and security in food consumption for the poor. While many viewing it as a supply proglem and propose to cope with it by … of China into study. Being the most populous nation in the world and with rural low-income and low food consumption …

Household access to food over time in Tanzania is measured by comparing the cost of representative food baskets to … starch such as cassava and banana. The food baskets include 15 food groups that make up approximately 67 to 88 percent of … average calorie intake. From 2008/09 to 2010/11, food basket costs rose rapidly in nominal terms but were stable in real terms …

food and nonfood coping mechanisms, findings suggest that the rise in food staple prices in India had wide-ranging effects …Food prices across the world rose dramatically between 2006 and 2008. The causes of the price rise were complex, and … the event has led to heightened concerns regarding the implications of rising food prices on the prevalence of food …

This study analyzes the climate change and economic impacts of food waste in the United States. Using loss …-adjusted national food availability data for 134 food commodities, it calculates the greenhouse gas emissions due to wasted food using … life cycle assessment and the economic cost of the waste using retail prices. The analysis shows that avoidable food waste …