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June 2003 — China's Growing Affluence: How Food Markets are Responding
Feature articles in the June 2003 issue include...China’s Growing Affluence: How Food Markets are Responding; Plant Genetic Resources: New Rules for International Exchange; Rural Welfare Reform: Lessons Learned; Aiming for Targets, Saving on Arrows: Recent Insights from Two USDA Food Assistance Programs. Other articles cover such topics as....World Wheat Markets; U.S. and EU Agricultural Policies; Consumer Attitudes Toward Biotech Foods; U.S. Hog and Poultry Marketing; Manure Management; Land Degradation and Global Food Security; Low-Skill Workers in Rural America; Hired Farmworkers; Dairy Product Consumption Trends; Agricultural Productivity. Also includes selected statistics on agriculture and trade, diet and health, natural resources, and rural America.
Up Front
 Some things never change
Feature Articles
China’s Growing Affluence: How Food Markets are Responding
Plant Genetic Resources: New Rules for International Exchange
Aiming for Targets, Saving on Arrows: Recent Insights from Two USDA Food Assistance Programs
Rural Welfare Reform: Lessons Learned
Findings
Markets and Trade
Nontraditional Exporters Increase Role In Wheat Market
Are U.S. And European Union Agricultural Policies Becoming More Similar?
Diet and Health
Information Sways Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Biotech Foods
U.S. Hog and Poultry Marketing: Similar Paths, Similar Outcomes?
Resources and Environment
Manure Management: A Growing Challenge in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Will Land Degradation Prove Malthus Right After All?
Rural America
Low-skill Work Takes a Smaller Share of Rural Employment
The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labor
Gleanings
Current Activities
Exemptions to Methyl Bromide Ban
Tracking the History of Food Products
Gauging Farmers’ Responses to New Farm Programs
Land Use Change
Recent Meetings
Uses of Retail Scanner Data
Keeping Up with Obesity Research
Agricultural Trade and Policy Reform
Effects of Invasive Species on U.S. Agriculture
New Releases
Feeding Children When School Is Out
Fruit and Vegetable Snacks in Schools
Organic Farming Expands
Commodity Markets and Trade
Data Feature
Indicators
Growth in Postwar Agriculture: The Key Role of Productivity
Profiles
Farm Bill Analysis Team
Calvin Beale
Global Food Security Team
Francis Joseph Marschner
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