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Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures (ERS)
  • Annual national data, 1970-1997
  • Food prices and per capita food consumption by commodity
  • Nutrient values, income and expenditures
  • PDF format in chapters
Food Security Statistics (FAO)
  • Spreadsheets provide malnourishment data, nutrient consumption, access to food, and health statistics for individual countries
  • PDF summaries for individual countries provide the same data on nutritional status
Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA)
  • Monthly reports on foreign agriculture production, weather, and tariff quotas as well as forecasts of future crop production
  • Includes agricultural and horticultural commodities
Glycemic Index
  • National Cancer Institute's estimation of the Glycemic index for foods based on a 1994-96 health interview survey
  • See the Diet History Questionnaire for additional information
Michigan State University Resources
  • Department of Agricultural Economics
    • International Development Working Papers include data on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
    • Annotated links to marketing information
    • Bibliography of printed departmental publications with statistics on Michigan, the United States, and foreign countries
National Agricultural Statistics Service
  • Primary data source for information on livestock, crops, the environment
  • Press releases, annuals, census of agriculture data
  • Most recent issue of the Weekly Crop-Weather State Reports
    • Crop progress and days suitable for field work
National Nutrient Database
  • Composition of individual foods by moisture, fiber, minerals, vitamins, calories, carbohydrates, protein and fats
  • Second group of tables arranged by substance (e.g. fiber, minerals) and then a listing of the foods which have them
Popular Weight Loss Diets (USDA)
  • Analyzes the effectiveness of high, mid and low fat diets
  • Includes Atkins, Pritkin, Weight Watchers, DASH
  • Concludes a 1500 calorie varied diet is the best
  • Executive summary released on January 10, 2001 and converted to HTML by the Documents Center
State Agriculture Departments (Piper)
  • Links to agriculture department web sites in the 50 states
  • Most sites have considerable local data
State of Food and Agriculture (FAO)
  • Primarily a textual file of agricultural issues worldwide and in individual countries
  • Includes summary graphs of agricultural, fisheries, and forestry production; food shortages, and foreign assistance
 
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