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CARD's FNP division analyzes food consumption, food safety, nutrition, and food assistance programs in the United States and selected developing nations. Analyses include price and income responses, dietary assessment, program efficiency and cost, and food safety and risk assessment.
The FNP Division has several major projects underway to analyze markets for food safety and quality, the role of food assistance programs under welfare reform, the measurement of hunger and food security, the role of government food programs in improving the nutritional status of individuals, and the cost effectiveness of food safety regulations.
Highlights
Farm and Food Policy and Obesity Workshop
May 21-22, 2010
UC Davis Conference Center
This workshop marks the completion of the four-year project on the effects of agricultural policies on obesity, conducted at UC Davis and Iowa State University. Program, speaker, and other information is available at the UC Davis Web site.
Effects of Agricultural Policies on Human Nutrition and Obesity
A project funded by USDA's National Research Initiative Program, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). This integrated project quantifies the nature and extent of the effects of economic factors and selected agricultural policies on human nutrition and obesity and links these findings to extension and educational activities. The overall goal is to support better-informed policy decisions through research, outreach and educational programs.
Export-Led Food Quality
These theme articles, edited by Bruce Babcock and Helen Jensen and published in Choices magazine (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2007), cover the topic of the rapid emergence of global food chains and how it has changed the strategic investment, marketing, and production decisions of food companies and farmers, as well as food and agricultural policy.
Do Biofuels Mean Inexpensive Food Is a Thing of the Past?
Helen H. Jensen and Bruce A. Babcock
Iowa Ag Review, Summer 2007
Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Disease
A project of the Food Safety Research Consortium, funded by USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). The project developed a conceptual framework for establishing priorities in food risk reduction based on an integrated, systems-wide approach.
Effects of Agricultural Policies on Human Nutrition and Obesity (poster)
J. Alston, J. Beghin, H. H. Jensen, L. Kaiser, D. Sumner, S. Vosti
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Recent Papers
Modeling Interdependent Participation Incentives: Dynamics of a Voluntary Livestock Disease Control Program
Tong Wang, David A. Hennessy
April 2012 [12-WP 527]
Accounting for Product Substitution in the Analysis of Food Taxes Targeting Obesity
Zhen Miao, John C. Beghin, Helen H. Jensen
October 2011 [10-WP 518](Revised)