This study investigates the possibility of using local food banks as a distributor in the local food supply chain. The specific research objective is to estimate the price premium consumers are willing to pay at retail outlets for locally grown products, if consumers have knowledge that a...

This study identifies how key economic and demographic variables affect U.S. households' expenditures on snacks.

Variations in different household expenditures across urban households in the Republic of Uganda are studied using a survey data. Multivariate Tobit estimation method is employed to quantify the effects of various factors, including household income. Expenditure elasticities of income vary...

The main goal of this paper is to provide current information on the impacts of Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) on food spending across two food subgroups: food at home (FAH) and food away from home (FAFH). Data was obtained from the BLS‟s Consumer Expenditure Survey and...

The objective of this paper is to identify which household factors and farm features determine the farm income in the rural households in the Northern Region of Ghana, and further to examine how farm income, nonfarm income and other socio-demographic factors affect the household fresh vegetable...

Using nationwide food consumption survey data collected in Bulgaria in 1997, this study examines how food intake patterns of the unemployed and pensioners differ from patterns of the employed. During transition, the unemployed and pensioners are particularly vulnerable to nutritional...

Using a monthly data covering from 1974:1 to 2002:12, this paper explores the linkage between changes in macroeconomic variables (real exchange rate and inflation rate) and changes in relative agricultural prices in different time horizons (1, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months). Controlling for...