This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book's attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic int...
The United States Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal seeks to reduce national food waste by 50%, down to 74kg per capita, by 2030. Here we investigate state policies' alignment with the federal goal across four policy categories. We develop a policy scoring matrix and apply it to wasted ...
An objective evaluation of food industry compliance with calorie reduction pledges suggests the food industry could contribute substantially to efforts to improve American health.17 Successful policies must incorporate diverse perspectives to achieve significant change in obesity in the United States. The ...
With its new Farmto Fork (F2F) strategy, the EU plans to expand organic farming, an approachthat rules out both synthetic chemicals and modern biotechnology, and itintends to use trade and assistance policies to pursue this strategy n...
Therefore, FBDGs are an attempt to establish a framework for food and nutrition services, public health, agricultural policies and consumer education to promote healthy eating habits and control diet-related diseases (FAO, 2021; WHO, 2014). This analysis brings additional insight to the literature ...
Local food has been the subject of federal, state, and local government policies in recent years throughout the United States as consumer demand has grown. Local foods have been linked to several government priorities—including enhancing the rural economy, the environment, and supporting agricultural...
Food Policyis a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation ofpoliciesfor thefood sectorin developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on theeconomicandsocialaspect of food … ...
The final section notes areas where further research could facilitate such transformations in food policies. 2. Why have open food markets? When food markets are opened to international trade, the gains from intra-national production specialization and market exchange are multiplied. Those gains from ...
consider the issue of trade-distortingfood policiesandsubsidies in the context of food security and identify [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 大会必须在粮食保障背景下审议歪曲贸易的粮食政策和补贴,并查明 全球农业部门失衡的情况,以期采取能在世界范围 内消除饥饿的政策。
Many cities in the United States could grow their own food locally,raising enough crops and cattle to meet the needs of all residents.This is the finding of an interesting new modeling study from Tufts University,which analyzed the potential for local food production in 378 areas across the US...