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Grain Truth: The Real Case for and Against Wheat and Gluten

Grain Truth: The Real Case for and Against Wheat and...

Author: Stephen Yafa ,  Dana Hickox
ISBN: 9781469003900
Format: Audio
$203.25

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The Effect of Food and Beverage Prices on Children?s Weights: Economic Research Report Number 118

The Effect of Food and Beverage Prices on Children?s...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515155461
Format: Paperback
$34.19

One factor that may be important in explaining rising childhood obesity is food prices. This report explores the...  Read More >>

A Revised and Expanded Food Dollar Series: A Better Understanding of Our Food Costs: Economic Research Report Number 114

A Revised and Expanded Food Dollar Series: A Better...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515169413
Format: Paperback
$34.19

A new ERS food dollar series measures annual expenditures on domestically produced food by individuals living in...  Read More >>

School Foodservice Costs: Location Matters: Economic Research Report Number 117

School Foodservice Costs: Location Matters: Economic...

Author: United Statesdepartment Ofagriculture
ISBN: 9781515155751
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Over 42 million meals-31.2 million lunches and 11 million breakfasts-were served on a typical school day in fiscal...  Read More >>

The Infant Formula Market: Consequences of a Change in the Wic Contract Brand: Economic Research Report Number 124

The Infant Formula Market: Consequences of a Change...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515145318
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the major purchaser of infant...  Read More >>

Household Food Security in the United States in 2010: Economic Research Report Number 125

Household Food Security in the United States in 2010:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515145257
Format: Paperback
$34.19

An estimated 85.5 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2010, meaning that...  Read More >>

Looking back, looking ahead - land, agriculture and society in East Africa, A Festschrift for Kjell Havnevik

Looking back, looking ahead - land, agriculture and...

Author: Michael Stahl
ISBN: 9789171067746
Format: Paperback
$35.97

Is Africa rising? Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa experience remarkable growth. Afrooptimists claim that an...  Read More >>

Household Food Security in the United States in 2011: Economic Research Report Number 141

Household Food Security in the United States in 2011:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515118855
Format: Paperback
$34.19

An estimated 85.1 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2011, meaning that...  Read More >>

Food Insecurity Among Households with Working-Age Adults with Disabilities: Economic Research Report Number 144

Food Insecurity Among Households with Working-Age Adults...

Author: United States Departmentof Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515118572
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Prior research has shown that food insecurity is more common among U.S households with an adult who has a work-limiting...  Read More >>

Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts: Economic Research Report Number 140

Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515118923
Format: Paperback
$34.19

USDA's Economic Research Service previously identified more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the United States based...  Read More >>

Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Updated Estimates of Distance to Supermarkets Using 2010 Data: Economic Research Report Number 143

Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Updated Estimates...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515118688
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Efforts to encourage Americans to improve their diets and to eat more nutritious foods presume that a wide variety...  Read More >>

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by School Lunch Participants: Economic Research Report Number 154

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by School Lunch Participants:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515058038
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Following the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, USDA instituted many changes to the National School Lunch Program...  Read More >>

Household Food Security in the United States in 2012: Economic Research Report Number 155

Household Food Security in the United States in 2012:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515057819
Format: Paperback
$34.19

An estimated 85.5 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2012, meaning that...  Read More >>

The Impacts of Reforms to the Public Distribution System in India's Chhattisgarh on Food Security: Economic Research Report Number 164

The Impacts of Reforms to the Public Distribution System...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515046028
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Although a rapidly growing developing country, India has a larger food-insecure population than all of Sub-Saharan...  Read More >>

How Transportation Costs Affect Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Prices: Economic Research Report Number 160

How Transportation Costs Affect Fresh Fruit and Vegetable...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515046882
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This report examines the ways that fuel prices are transmitted to wholesale produce prices via transportation costs....  Read More >>

Household Food Security in the United States in 2013: Economic Research Report Number 173

Household Food Security in the United States in 2013:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515032472
Format: Paperback
$34.19

An estimated 85.7 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2013, meaning that...  Read More >>

Prevalence of U.S. Food Insecurity Is Related to Changes in Unemployment, Inflation, and the Price of Food: Economic Research Report Number 167

Prevalence of U.S. Food Insecurity Is Related to Changes...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515033424
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This report examines the extent to which year-to-year changes in the prevalence of U.S. household food insecurity...  Read More >>

Climate Change, Heat Stress, and U.S. Dairy Production: Economic Research Report Number 175

Climate Change, Heat Stress, and U.S. Dairy Production:...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515002079
Format: Paperback
$34.19

In the United States, climate change is likely to increase average daily temperatures and the frequency of heat...  Read More >>

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