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- Global Sales By Retail Outlet
- This tool gives year wise percent of sales, details of share of global packaged food sales.
- Tools & templates 2005-02-15
- Describing Price Formation in Semi-Perishable Produce Markets
- Central to the development of any model of retail and supplier price determination, therefore, is an understanding of how pricing strategies influence, how and where, prices are determined. This report describes the price formation in semi-perishable produce markets. This report summarizes that fresh fruit prices tend to be formed at...
- White papers 2003-09-17
- Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
- This report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. It includes a general guide to community assessment and focused materials for examining six basic assessment components related to community food security. These include guides for profiling general community characteristics and community food...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Consumer Demand Sparks the Growth of Quality Assurance Schemes in the European Food Sector
- Concerns over food quality and safety have led to the growth of quality assurance schemes that provide technical requirements for production and processing and provide inspection and monitoring to assure compliance. The schemes, increasingly prevalent in the U.K. livestock and meat industry, will impact market structure, international competitiveness, and trade.
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Factors Affecting International Demand and Trade in Organic Food Products
- With increasing presence in supermarkets and a broader base of consumer support among both occasional and regular buyers, organic food markets are expanding worldwide. Taste, freshness, quality, and food safety concerns drive consumer demand for organic foods. Price premiums, the price-quality trade-offs, as well as country of origin, GE content,...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Effects of Food-Safety Perceptions on Food Demand and Global Trade
- Food safety has emerged as an important global issue with international trade and public health implications. How countries perceive and handle food safety risks is complicated and partly based on their access to and use of science, detection technology, and mitigation methods. This report points out that highly publicized food...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Consumer Demand for Fruit and Vegetables: The U.S. Example
- Fruit and vegetable consumption has been shown to be an important part of any diet leading towards good health. Factors such as income, aging of a population, market promotion, and consumer awareness of the importance of produce, contribute to increased fruit and vegetable consumption. For example, this report shows how...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Changing Consumer Demand for Meat: The U.S Example, 1970 - 2000
- This report is a brief presentation of how U.S. meat consumption patterns have changed over the past 30 years. Clearly, the substitution of poultry meat in place of beef by U.S. consumers is the most significant change that has occurred since 1970. While the U.S. beef consumption has declined, while...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Transportation Technology and the Rising Share of U.S. Perishable Food Trade
- This article describes in detail how, by reducing delivery times, maintaining product quality, and reducing hipping costs, advances in transportation technology have greatly facilitated trade of perishable food products. Advances in transportation technology are partly responsible for shifts in the composition of U.S. agricultural trade from bulk commodities to non-bulk...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Effects of Urbanization on Global Food Demand
- This report analyzes and examines the effects of urbanization on global food demand. Urbanization, by affecting caloric requirements, food availability, and female labor status, impacts the structure of food consumption. Urbanization, associated with economic development and income growth, has already largely occurred in developed countries, while continuing strongly in developing...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Cross-Country Analysis of Food Consumption Patterns
- This report examines how changing incomes and prices affect changes in food expenditure for a cross-section of countries ranging from low, to middle, to high income. Low-income countries spend a greater portion of their budget on food and are more responsive to income and food price changes than middle- and...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Fundamental Question: Do Retailers Have Market Power?
- Sweeping generalizations of how buying and selling prices are determined in produce markets are invalid if not impossible. Each fruit and vegetable market is distinct. However, to be useful, economic models of price determination must separate which market differences are important from those that may be plausibly assumed to be...
- White papers 2003-09-17
- Empirical Test of Imperfect Competition in Semi-Perishable Produce
- Retailer margins are determined by both the prices they charge consumers and the prices they pay to shippers for their fresh produce. Therefore, in order to determine how much of the weekly variation in margins is due to the ability to set prices on either the buying or selling sides...
- White papers 2003-09-17
- Leading Retailers In Global Food Market Sales, By Type Of Retail Outlet
- This is a template for leading retailers in global food market sales.
- Tools & templates 2005-03-03
- Vegetables and Melons Outlook: Acreage to Rise for Dry Beans, Dry Peas, and Lentils
- This report states that driven by the income security provided by the marketing loan program, favorable market prices for lentils, falling prices for alternative crops, relatively low input costs, and the long term benefits of having pulses in a crop rotation, U.S. dry pea and lentil growers are again expected...
- White papers 2005-02-23
- Vegetables and Melons Outlook: Per Capita Vegetable Disappearance Up Slightly in 2004
- This report on vegetable and melons states that per capita disappearance use of all vegetables, melons, and pulses increased about 1 pound in 2004 to 447.8 pounds. Per capita use of fresh-market vegetables (excluding melons, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms) rose 4 percent to 144 pounds in 2004. Including melons,...
- White papers 2005-04-21
- Vegetables and Melons Outlook: Wheat Is the Top Alternative Crop on Vegetable Farms
- According to the 2002 Census of Agriculture, operations classified as vegetable and melon farms under the North American Industry Classification System, account for 75 percent of all the vegetable and melon acreage harvested in the country. Although wheat is the top field crop grown alongside (and/or in rotation with) vegetables...
- White papers 2005-06-23
- U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Marketing: Emerging Trade Practices, Trends, and Issues
- In the past year, trade practices between fresh produce shippers and food retailers gained national attention. Trade practices include fees such as volume discounts and slotting fees, as well as services like automatic inventory replenishment, special packaging, and requirements for third-party food safety certification. This study compares trade practices in...
- White papers 2001-01-31
- Traceability in the U.S. Food Supply: Economic Theory and Industry Studies
- This report investigates into the traceability baseline in the United States finds that private sector food firms have developed a substantial capacity to trace. Traceability systems are a tool to help firms manage the flow of inputs and products to improve efficiency, product differentiation, food safety, and product quality. Firms...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food: A Demand Model Approach
- Forecasting food prices is an important component of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is short-term outlook and long-term baseline forecasting activities. A food price-forecasting model is developed by applying an inverse demand system, in which prices are functions of quantities of food use and income. Therefore, these quantity and income...
- White papers 2000-02-01
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