Food Policy in the United States
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This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers, but also includes nutrition, sustainable agriculture, the environment and food security. The book’s goal is to make US food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored. The chapters cover US agriculture, food production and the environment, international agricultural trade, food and beverage manufacturing, food retail and restaurants, food safety, dietary guidance, food labeling, advertising and federal food assistance programs for the poor. The author is an agricultural economist with many years of experience in the non-profit advocacy sector, the US Department of Agriculture and as a professor at Tufts University. The author's well-known blog on US food policy provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book.
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Findings from the NSLP offer several potential strategies to reduce waste, including extending eating time, increasing the variety of offerings, serving lunch after recess, improving meal quality, allowing children to serve themselves and serving fruit in ready-to-eat forms.
“Findings from the NSLP offer several potential strategies to reduce waste (8) : extending eating time (23) , increasing the variety of offerings (24,47) , serving lunch after recess (21,22) , improving meal quality (16) , allowing children to serve themselves (19,20) and serving fruit in ready-to-eat forms (25,48) .”
From ‘It's just so much waste.’ A qualitative investigation of food waste in a universal free School Breakfast Program (2015) · cites this paper as [47]
Nutrition standards limiting fat content may have had the unintended consequences of decreasing consumption and increasing waste.
“While improving the nutritional profile of the milk meal component, nutrition standards limiting fat content may have had the unintended consequences of decreasing consumption and increasing waste (47,66,67) .”
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- Authors
- Wilde, P.
- Affiliations
- Tufts University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wilde, Parke
- ORCID
- Wilde, Parke
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013-04-16
- OpenAlex
- W4244001010
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 3.45
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Agricultural economics and policies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Keywords
- food policy, United States food policy, agricultural economics, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, food security, international agricultural trade, food manufacturing, food retail, restaurants, food safety, dietary recommendations, food labeling, food advertising, federal food assistance programs, environmental impact of agriculture
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