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November 2003 — Trade Partners Seek Common Ground on Food Safety Issues
Feature articles in the November 2003 issue include: Food Safety and Trade: Regulations, Risks, and Reconciliation; From Supply Push to Demand Pull: Agribusiness Strategies for Today’s Consumers; Consumers and the Future of Biotech Foods in the United States; Emphasis Shifts in U.S. Agri-Environmental Policy. Other articles cover such topics as....global food consumption and expenditures, China’s vegetable exports, livestock shipments, fruit and vegetable consumption in schools, competitive pressure in food marketing, productivity in food manufacturing, hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, farmland protection, child poverty in rural areas, older population in rural areas, and agricultural biotechnology patents. Also includes selected statistics on agriculture and trade, diet and health, natural resources, and rural America.
Up Front
 A Different Perspective
Feature Articles
Food Safety and Trade: Regulations, Risks, and Reconciliation
From Supply Push to Demand Pull: Agribusiness Strategies for Today’s Consumers
Consumers and the Future of Biotech Foods in the United States
Emphasis Shifts in U.S. Agri-Environmental Policy
Findings
Markets and Trade
A Richer World Wants a Richer Diet
China’s Vegetable Exports Challenge the U.S. in Japan’s Market
Are More Livestock Hitting the Road?
Diet and Health
Free Fruit and Vegetable Snacks a Big Hit in Schools
Competition Alters the U.S. Food Marketing Landscape
Productivity Growth Lags in Food Manufacturing
Resources and Environment
Dead Zone in the Gulf: Addressing Agriculture’s Contribution
Greenbelts? Not Without Greenbacks
Rural America
Dimensions of Child Poverty in Rural Areas
Growth of Older Population Slows in Rural Areas
Gleanings
Current Activities
ERS Contributions to Understanding Obesity Recognized
Rural Demographic Trends from 2000 Census Data
Changing Patterns of Food Consumption
ERS Awards Grants for Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management
Recent Meetings
How Does the Public Value Farmland?
New State-Level Estimates from ARMS
Keeping Up With Data Developments
Economic Measurement, Methodology, and Policy
New Releases
Easier Access to More Data
Emergency Food Assistance
Food Stamps Reduce the Depth and Severity of Child Poverty
Policy Change Affects Cranberry Plantings
China’s Trade as a First-Year World Trade Organization Member
2003 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Released
U.S. Farmers’ Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops
Benchmark Data on Plant Breeding
Data Feature
Indicators
Estimating Export Share of U.S. Agricultural Production
Obesity Rates
U.S. Cropland
Profiles
Roger Strickland
Mitch Moreheart
Bob Green
Jim Johnson & Farm Sector Performance and Well-Being Branch
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