Food Security & Supply

How you eat affects the planet - and everyone else on it. What you eat might literally cost the earth. It also has implications for your health, fo...

How does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarka...

American consumers deserve to trust the safety of the food they purchase for themselves and their families. While we enjoy one of the safest food s...

Within the tropical fruits, the papaya, Carica papaya L. (family Caricaceae Dumort.), is presented as the main representative being cultivated in t...

Multifunctional agriculture first received wide attention in 1998, when Japan, South Korea, and the European Union used the term to describe the mu...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a responsibility for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of more than 80 percent of the U.S. food su...

Most U.S. households have consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living -- they are food secure. But a minority of Americ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) plays a vital role in the social safety net in the Uni...

Over the years, Congress has authorized and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

Most food nutrition contains the phytochemicals for human health. Carotenoids and polyphenols, such as flavonoids and phenolic acids, might be espe...

The first chapter of this book provides a foundation for discussing error and fraud in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and for eva...

Recently for the prevention and treatment of many neurologic, metabolic and other chronic diseases, the focus has shifted from allopathic Western m...

Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the differe...

Many of the vast number of mushroom species are available world-wide. They are valued in gourmet traditions around the world for their unique taste...

Each year, one in six people in the United States is sickened by a foodborne illness. Government, industry, and others expend considerable resource...

The Obama Administrations Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative is a U.S. international development program launched in 2010 that invests in food securi...