urban food consumers. Urban consumption patterns will increasingly determine the opportunities available to small …

rural area. Individual characteristics from a 2006 mail survey (n 5 1,510) were combined with store locations and price … impact of cost and accessibility on fruit and vegetable intake in rural settings. This study examines the relationship … information from a 2006 ground-truthed census of retail outlets. The mail survey covered seven counties in central Texas with 38 …

Rural households in China have traditionally consumed food mostly grown on their own farms. While they continue to rely … on self-produced grains, vegetables, meats, and eggs for a large portion of their diet, rural households are now … purchasing more of their food as they enter the mainstream of the Chinese economy. Cash purchases of food by rural Chinese …

beverage products. Food expenditures and incomes have grown much more slowly for rural and low-income urban households. …

systems could have important implications for farming and wider rural development. While previous studies have analyzed farm … survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya, in this article a double-hurdle model of hired labor use is developed and estimated … labor. Given that agricultural wage labor is primarily an activity of low-income households in rural areas, the poor benefit …

.e. before 1986. Dietary adequacy of energy and protein was assessed to define the poverty line among urban and rural populations …

schools in order to reduce local food insecurity and improve the quality of nutrition provided to students. A survey was …. University of Georgia collaborated with the Georgia Department of Education and Georgia Organics to develop a survey that met the …-choice selection with an option to write any additional comments. The survey was distributed by the Department of Education to 158 …