changes in fat, protein, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and on diet's diversity during the transition period 1994 - 2004 in …) data suggest that individual characteristics such as initial consumption patterns, gender, education, household income, and … access to a garden plot all have a significant impact on the consumption behaviour. Regarding the macroeconomic variables …

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of agricultural technology adoption on household food consumption … household food consumption expenditure per adult equivalent per annum. The result of the study reveals that adopting … agricultural technology significantly increases household food consumption expenditure per adult equivalent. Moreover, the …

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 …