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“How we eat determines, to a   
  considerable extent, how the world is used.” Wendell Berry

Eating for the Future

Resources: FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA AND TRENDS

UNITED STATES

USDA Briefing Room: Food Consumption
This comprehensive webpage from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides a variety of reports and resources on food consumption, trends, and implications for U.S. agriculture.  Includes links to the USDA/ERS food consumption database. 

American’s Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences
Elizabeth Frazao (ed.), USDA Economic Research Service, 1999
Individual chapters in this book provide different perspectives on the nutrition problems in the U.S.: the economic costs associated with unhealthy eating patterns; dietary patterns compared with dietary recommendations; the effect of national income and prices, advertising, health claims, knowledge and trends in eating away from home affect nutrient intake; government programs and regulations influence on food expenditures and consumption; public and private efforts to improve healthy eating; and potential impacts of healthier eating on domestic agriculture.

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Global and Regional Food Consumption Patterns and Trends
Chapter from the 2003 report entitled, “Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases” published jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

FAO Homepage
Use FAO’s interactive database to find past and current food consumption and production statistics.

    


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