Contractor and Cooperator Reports

Food loss and waste is a challenge both nationally and globally and has implications for nutrition security, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. USDA, Eco [...]

One of the most widely used data products published by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is the farm-wholesale-retail meat price spread [...]

New and reformulated products are introduced into the U.S. food system at the rate of about 20,000 products per year. Breakfast cereals and bread products are among the m [...]

This project involved the execution of data sharing agreements and preparation of a publically accessible database and summary reports for the National Food and Nutrition [...]

This study used one weekday and one weekend day of dietary recall data for 2,376 school children in NHANES (2003-2008) to address two related objectives: (1) to estimate [...]

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last decades but little is known about the origins of, or persistence in, childhood obesity. In this paper, [...]

Immigrant workers are overrepresented in industries that have been the hardest hit in the recent economic downturn, such as the service and construction industries. As a [...]

Every schoolday, over 31 million U.S children eat school lunches. Unfortunately, students often do not choose the healthy options in the cafeteria. This study used form [...]

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP) are designed to provide nutritionally balanced low-cost or free meals to children in public an [...]

This study describes the environment in which low-income households acquire and purchase food by examining the local population characteristics of areas with and without [...]