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Household food consumption, individual caloric intake and obesity in France

Bonnet, Céline; Dubois, Pierre; Orozco, Valérie - In: Empirical Economics 46 (2014) 3, pp. 1143-1166

Using 2 years of home scanned data on household food purchases in France, we show how to infer the profile of average individual caloric intakes according to gender, age, and body mass index of household members. We also infer the individual consumption of macronutrients as carbohydrates,...

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Sustainable biofuels from algae

Borowitzka, Michael; Moheimani, Navid - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 1, pp. 13-25

, water, nutrients (N and P) and CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> requirements and highlights some of the key issues in the very …

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An Investigation of the Impacts of Agricultural Runoff on the Water Quality and Aquatic Organisms in a Lowveld Sand River System in Southeast Zimbabwe

Tafangenyasha, Clifford; Dube, Lawrence - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 1, pp. 119-130

nutrients concentrations and benthic fauna in a semi-arid tropical lowveld region of southeast Zimbabwe. Water quality was …, p > 0.05) were not found in mean values of calcium, magnesium, potassium, total nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, ammonia … nitrogen and total phosphorous in river bottom sediments in May and August. These data certainly do not support the notion that …

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The Influence of Green Roofs on Runoff Water Quality: A Case Study from Estonia

Teemusk, Alar; Mander, Ülo - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 14, pp. 3699-3713

the moment the samples were taken affected runoff quality more than the age and location of the green roof. The use of NPK-nutrients …

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Assessment of River Water Quality in Northwestern Greece

Kotti, Melina; Vlessidis, Athanasios; Thanasoulias, … - In: Water Resources Management 19 (2005) 1, pp. 77-94

The effect of land use patterns on river water quality was studied in three different river basins located in Epirus, Northwestern Greece. Studies were conducted from October 2000 to {September} 2001. During this period, the parameters chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand...

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Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, 1962-82

Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1983

This bulletin ,presents 1962-82 data on per capita food consumption, prices, nutrient availability,food expenditures and marketing costs, and U.S. income and population. Retail food prices in 1982 rose 4.0 percent, aggregate food consumption fell 0.4 percent, and personal food, consumption...

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Food Consumption, Pr

Punam, Judith Jones - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1990

This report presents historical data on food consumption, prices, and expenditures, and U. S. income. and popu1at.ion. A retail price-weighted quantity index put the 1988 per capita food supply up 10 percent from 1967, as consumption of crop-derived foods outpaced consumption of foods from...

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Food Consumption, Prices and Expenditures, 1964-84

Bunch, Karen; Simon, Grace - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1985

Retail food prices in 1984 rose 3.8 percent, aggregate food consumption r~se 1 percent, and personal food consumption. expenditures for food rose 7.0 percent from 1983. This bulletin presents 1964-84 data on per capita food consumption, prices, nutrient availability, food expenditures and...

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The Demand for Nutrients in China

Tian, Xu; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 2, pp. 186-206

employs a direct method to estimate the income elasticities of 22 nutrients using household survey data to fill the gap in the … current literature. Our results indicate that the income elasticities of most nutrients are smaller than that which is stated …

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Implications of alternative mill mud management options in the Australian sugar industry

Qureshi, Muhammad Ejaz; Wegener, Malcolm K.; Qureshi, S.E. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2002

Sugar mills produce a range of by-products during the process of sugar extraction. Mill mud is one of the by-products produced in significant volume. The practice of spreading mill mud over nearby cane fields has been the primary means of disposing of mill mud for many years. The continued...

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