In Consumption of Food in the United States, 1909-52,1 there is presented for the first time an "index of supply-utilization" of farm products having food use. This new index breaks down the combined utilization of such products, on a farm-value basis, both according to sources of supply and...

Postwar variations from prewar levels in income, expenditures, and prices have necessitated the reconsideration and re-evaluation of our ideas of consumer demandfor food. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics has been devoting attention to the improvement of food consumption data and analyses,...

Current pressure of demand on our food supplies, resulting from the accelerated defense program, has renewed the general interest in the food needs of our civilian population. Concepts of food needs vary from minimum quantities of food required to maintain health and activity to full consumer...

What makes consumers buy, or what causes them not to buy, has long been the subject of research, and today it is a well worn topic of conversation. Agricultural economists are professionally concerned with consumers' demand for food and the motivation of their choices. Through the years,...

The production and distribution of food is perhaps the most important single vertical segment of our national economy. More than one-fourth of our personal disposable income goes for food. On the other side of the picture, our farmers receive more than two-thirds of their income from sales of...

The National Food Survey has been a carefully watched gauge for both wartime and postwar British food administration. It has measured the successes and the failures of the policies and programs for maintaining equitable distribution of foods essential to the civilian population of the United...

The choice among several concepts of food consumption depends upon what is to be studied, whether a farm problem, a marketing problem, or a problem at the level of consumer purchase or food intake. That choice will largely determine the selection among possible measures of food consumption. No...

[fre] Aux Etats-Unis, la qualité des produits agricoles s'est améliorée. La demande s'est déplacée vers des articles plus raffinés et plus élaborés, d'une valeur nutritive plus élevée. Une même tendance se dessine en Europe. Quelle sera sa répercussion sur l'Agriculture ? [eng] The...