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Category : Food prices
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Food Market Commentary
Author: Food Market Commentary
Author: Building Community Food Webs
Author: Ken MeterPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831476
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.
Food Politics
Author: Marion NestlePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520955064
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more--more food, more often, and in larger portions--no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like manufacturing cigarettes or building weapons, making food is big business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly $900 billion in sales. They have stakeholders to please, shareholders to satisfy, and government regulations to deal with. It is nevertheless shocking to learn precisely how food companies lobby officials, co-opt experts, and expand sales by marketing to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries. We learn that the food industry plays politics as well as or better than other industries, not least because so much of its activity takes place outside the public view. Editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, Nestle is uniquely qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests and influences. She vividly illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. When it comes to the mass production and consumption of food, strategic decisions are driven by economics--not science, not common sense, and certainly not health. No wonder most of us are thoroughly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics will forever change the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. By explaining how much the food industry influences government nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those of nutrition experts, this path-breaking book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.
Food Fish Market Review and Outlook
Author: Food Fish; Market Review and Outlook
Author: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Market Research and Services DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Fish trade
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Quick serve - and fast-food Market in the restaurant industry in the United States. A short analysis
Author: Jessica PhillipsPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346378349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Market research, grade: 98, , course: GEB 4905, language: English, abstract: This paper represents a market analysis of the quick serve and fast food restaurant industry. The restaurant industry is highly competitive, there are currently 660 thousand restaurants in the U.S. the industry does have its barriers but it is not impossible to enter the market. The barriers consist of large capital investment, patents and trademarks, state and federal regulations, and high overhead costs. These barriers are a moderate threat to new entries. Because there are so many restaurants buyers have the power. Restaurants must compete with each other to win the buyer. The same thing is occurring to the suppliers of the restaurants. There is always a cheaper and or simply just another supplier available. This gives restaurants all of the power.
Increasing Food Recovery from Farmers Markets
Author: Charlene C. PricePublisher:
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Category : Farmers' markets
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Food from Farmer to Consumer
Author: United States. National Commission on Food MarketingPublisher:
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Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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