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America's Eating Habits: Changes and
Consequences—This compendium provides different perspectives
on nutrition problems in the United States. Healthier diets might prevent
$71 billion per year in medical costs, lost productivity, and the cost
of premature deaths associated with these conditions.
Away-From-Home Foods Increasingly Important
to Quality of American Diet—Foods prepared away from home have
lower nutritional quality than foods prepared at home. Therefore, the
trend toward increased consumption of food away from home could present
a challenge for Americans to improve the nutritional quality of their
diets.
The Demand for Food Away from Home: Full-Service or Fast Food?—As Americans grow more affluent and time-stretched, they spend more dollars on food away from home than at home. Fast food and full-service restaurants must continually jockey for this revenue. The fast food segment had once grown accustomed to an ever-increasing market share. Those days now appear to be behind them. This report examines the shift in consumer demand that might alter the competitive dynamics of the away-from-home market. A two-page Research Brief is also available.
The Decline in Food Stamp Program Participation
in the 1990's—The Food Stamp Program saw an unprecedented decline
in participation from 27.5 million participants in 1994 to 18.2 million
participants in 1999. ERS research describes the role of a strong economy
and changes in social welfare programs in this change.
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Final Report: Fiscal 2003 Activities—Provides an overview of FANRP's research themes, principles, and activities and describes the objectives of individual research projects. A list of FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program awards in fiscal 2003 and project descriptions are also available.
The Food Assistance Landscape—This
periodical provides a brief overview of USDA's domestic food assistance
programs. Each issue contains recent program statistics, such as expenditure,
participation, and benefit levels, as well as information on related economic
and social indicators, such as unemployment rates, income growth, and
food price inflation. The report also discusses recent ERS research related
to food assistance.
FoodReview: Consumer-Driven
Agriculture—This issue projects U.S. food consumption
and spending to 2020. Articles discuss how farmers, processors, retailers,
and foodservice operators are responding to this changing demand for food.
Two additional articles look at food assistance expenditures and household
food security.
FoodReview:
Examining the Well-Being of Children—Articles
in this issue discuss the well-being of America's children, children's
diet quality, the problem of overweight children in America, foodborne
disease among children, the economics of breastfeeding, and food assistance
programs that help children and their families.
FoodReview:
Weighing In on Obesity—This issue of FoodReview finds
ERS researchers "weighing in" on a critical public health issue—the
growing epidemic of Americans who are overweight and obese. The lead article
takes a look at the American diet—typically too high in added sugars,
refined grains, fats, and calories. Other articles examine the relationship
between caloric intake and obesity, individuals' misperceptions about
their weight status, the link between fruit consumption and body weight,
and the cost-effectiveness issues raised by Federal interventions to reduce
obesity. Another article looks at the use of emergency food pantries by
U.S. households.
FoodReview:
Welfare Reform and Food Assistance—This issue
is devoted to the topic of welfare reform and food assistance. Articles
discuss the contribution of a strong economy and welfare reform to a drop
in food stamp rolls, food stamp participation rates in rural and urban
areas, food stamp participation and food security, and the effect of the
WIC program on children's nutrient intake.
Household Food Security in the United States, 2002—Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2002. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.7 percent of households in 2001 to 11.1 percent in 2002, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.3 percent of households to 3.5 percent during the same period. This report, based on data from the December 2002 food security survey provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs.
Structural Change in U.S. Chicken and
Turkey Slaughter—Substantial scale economies in the poultry industry
have reduced the real price of chicken and turkey by over 50 percent during
1963-97 and have led to a number of structural changes.
Understanding the Dynamics of Produce
Markets: Consumption and Consolidation Grow—Retail groceries
and food wholesalers have consolidated. Produce sellers are concerned
about the competitiveness of produce markets, with fewer buyers for their
products and with new marketing and trade practices. Also see the chapter
on ERS produce markets project in the Food
Market Structures Briefing Room.
The U.S. Food Marketing System,
2002—This electronic report focuses on recent trends in the food
supply chain. Chapters on food manufacturing, wholesaling, grocery retailing,
and food service provide a detailed overview of structure, performance,
information systems, new technology, and foreign direct investments. The
report also contains a comprehensive set of appendix tables containing
sales, concentration, trade, productivity, and other indicators.
Vertical Coordination of Marketing Systems:
Lessons From the Poultry, Egg and Pork Industries—The report
examines the role of contracts and vertical integration in reducing transaction
costs. The report further explores benefits from new methods of vertical
coordination and the implications for future research.
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