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September 2003 — U.S. Tobacco Industry Responds to New Challenges
Feature articles in the September 2003 issue include: U.S. Tobacco Industry Responds to New Competitors, New Challenges; Multilateralism and Regionalism: Dual Strategies for Trade Reform; The Effect of the 1990s on Nonmetro Poverty; Production Costs Critical to Farming Decisions; Balancing Food Costs with Nutrition Goals in WIC. Other articles cover such topics as...vegetable consumption away from home, NAFTA, meat trade, overweight and BMI, food insufficiency, conservation costs and benefits, agricultural resource indicators, rural college graduates, the diversity of rural America, and new Census definitions of nonmetropolitan areas. Also includes selected statistics on agriculture and trade, diet and health, natural resources, and rural America.
Up Front
 The Knowledge Factor
Feature Articles
U.S. Tobacco Industry Responding to New Competitors, New Challenges
Multilateralism and Regionalism: Dual Strategies for Trade Reform
Nonmetro Poverty: Assessing the Effect of the 1990s
Production Costs Critical to Farming Decisions
Balancing Food Costs with Nutrition Goals in WIC
Findings
Markets and Trade
Vegetable Consumption Away from Home on the Rise
North America: One Market, Big Payoffs, Many Challenges
Differences in Demand Help Shape Meat Trade
Agriculture Economy Improves in 2003
Diet and Health
What Weight Problem?
The Dynamics of Food Insufficiency
Resources and Environment
Balancing Conservation Costs and Benefits
What You Want to Know About Resources and the Environment…But Couldn’t Find
Rural America
Rural College Graduates Make a Comeback
Exploring the Diversity of Rural America Through Interactive Mapping
Gleanings
Current Activities
A Market for Ideas
Liberalizing World Trade in Textiles and Apparel
Recent Meetings
Competing Policy Issues and Agendas for Agricultural Trade
ERS Hosts Water Resources Research Coordinating Committee
Workshop on Farm Savings Accounts and the Farm Safety Net
New Releases
Low-Income Households Spend Less on Food
Research on Child Nutrition
USDA Food Assistance Programs in 2003: How Are We Doing?
Sugar Increasingly Enters U.S. in Imported Products
Tracking Livestock Shipments
Commodity Markets and Trade
Analyzing Fertilizer Trade
Contracting Takes Over Flue-Cured Tobacco Sales
Data Feature
Indicators
Defining Rural Areas Based on New County Classifications
Geographic Distribution of Government Payments as a Proportion of Gross Cash Income From Farming
Farm Employment
Profiles
Marc Ribaudo
Charles Barnard
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
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