Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of crop-livestock diversification among smallholders in the forest-savannah agroecological zone of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a stochastic input distance function to investigate the evidence of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been responsible for conducting periodic surveys to estimate food consumption patterns of households and/or individuals in the United States for over 50 years. Data from these surveys have had a significant impact on the formulation of...

The parameters of the distribution of usual intakes of calcium, energy, iron, protein and vitamin C are estimated using four daily intakes of these dietary components for a sample of women selected in the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, conducted in 1985-86 by the Human...