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In‐Kind Food Assistance and Consumer Food Choice

Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1987
In‐kind food assistance was the mainstay of federal food programs until the food stamp program expanded. Analysis of aggregate data suggests that large donations of cheese and butter since 1982, through the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, replaced recipients’ normal purchases of the donated products, reduced consumption of close ...
JAMES A. ZELLNER, LARRY G. TRAUB
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Snakes assisted food image segmentation

2012 IEEE 14th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2012
In this paper we describe an image segmentation method for segmenting food items in images used for dietary assessment. Dietary assessment methods used to determine the foods and beverages consumed at a meal are essential for understanding the link between diet and health. Snakes, or active contours, are used extensively to locate object boundaries and
Y. He, Nitin Khanna, Carol J. Boushey, Edward J. Delp   +3 more
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food and nutrition assistance landscape

2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs that affect the lives of millions of people and account for roughly two-thirds of USDA's annual budget. In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, USDA launched additional temporary programs and implemented numerous policy changes that ...
Saied Toossi, Jordan W. (Jordan William) Jones   +1 more
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FERMENTATION ASSISTED FUNCTIONAL FOODS

2023
Human gut can be exposed to live, and potentially beneficial, microbes through fermented foods made via favourable microbial growth and enzymatic conversions of food components. Functional fermented foods (FFFs) with probiotics contribute to health and nutrition owing to their beneficial effects.
Varsha Naik, Savita Kerkar
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Transforming Food Aid to Food Assistance

2011
The WFP’s Strategic Plan (2008—extended to 2013): marks a historical shift from WFP as a food aid agency to WFP as a food assistance agency, with a more nuanced and robust set of tools to respond to critical hunger needs. Its overarching goal is to reduce dependency and to support governmental efforts to ensure long term solutions to the hunger ...
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High Food Prices and International Food Assistance

2012
High food prices in 2008 and 2010 generated concern about food security in developing countries. The number of food insecure people was estimated to have jumped significantly and food assistance donors were faced with unexpectedly high procurement bills.
Cardwell, Ryan T., Cardwell, Ryan T.
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Food Assistance Programs and Food Security

2014
Food insecurity is a leading public-health challenge in the United States today. This is primarily due to the magnitude of the problem—about 50 million persons are food insecure—and the serious negative health and other outcomes associated with being food insecure.
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The Food Assistance Convention

International Legal Materials, 2013
The Food Assistance Convention (Convention), signed by seven countries and the European Union in April 2012, went into effect on January 1, 2013. The Convention replaces and builds on the 1999 Food Aid Convention (FAC 1999). The use of ‘‘assistance’’ instead of ‘‘aid’’ in the title signals a change in approach from fixed commodity donations to offering
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Discussant's Response to "Food Assistance Programs and Food Security"*

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2005
T he three papers in this session share a common objective of attempting to identify the role of food assistance programs on household food security. With expenditures for these programs totaling over $35 billion in 2003, assessing their effect on key outcomes such as food security is critical to understanding the target efficiency of federal food ...
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Food Assistance Programs

1991
Food Program Facts [on]: Food Stamp Program --- National School Lunch Program --- The School Breakfast Program --- The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) --- Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) --- The Nutrition Assistance Programs in Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas --- The Child and Adult Care Food ...
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