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Food consumption

1. Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
2. Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures (1970-97)
3. Food Resource
4. Free Rice
5. History of Eating Utensils
6. Hunger Site
7. Kitchen Link
8. Obesity Resource Information Centre
9. State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999

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Food and Drink Federation (FDF)

Web site of the UK Food and Drink Federation (FDF) offering industry news and market information. Also provides access to numerous FDF publications and reports pertaining to issues such as food safety, genetic modification, food hygiene, nutrition and food marketing. Reports are available in HTML or Word formats.
     Author: Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
     Subjects: food consumption, food industry, food production, food safety, food science
     DeweyClass: 338.19
     Resource type: documents, news, reference

Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures (1970-97)

Information about food consumption, prices, expenditures, US income and population from 1970 to 1997. Considers how consumption patterns have changed over this period, revealing that Americans now consume about 50 percent more grain products and around 25 percent more fruits and vegetables, per capita, than they did in 1970, and are consuming higher amounts of caloric sweeteners and added fats.
     Author: US Department of Agriculture
     Subjects: food consumption, united states economic data
     DeweyClass: 641.3
     Resource type: document

Food Resource

Food Resource aims to provide access to images, documents and other food references via the Internet. Categories include associations and organisations, nutrition, fruits, safety and chemicals.
     Author: Oregon State University
     Subjects: food consumption, food production, food safety, food science
     DeweyClass: 641.3
     Resource type: index

Free Rice

Interactive educational game developed in partnership with the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the United Nations World Food Program. Tests users' knowledge of world geography, languages, english, maths, famous paintings, chemistry and English, while donating rice to developing countries.
     Author: FreeRice.com
     Subjects: food consumption, geography education
     DeweyClass: 910
     Resource type: interactive game

History of Eating Utensils

A guide to the history and evolution of eating utensils, illustrated by images from a collection of 1700 utensils assembled by Carl Austin Reitz.
     Author: California Academy of Sciences
     Subjects: food consumption
     DeweyClass: 642.7
     Resource type: documents

Hunger Site

Offers the opportunity to donate food to hungry people around the world, paid for by sponsors. Documents donation totals since June 1999, and a breakdown of totals donated by each country. General facts about hunger are available in over 50 languages, and an index of hunger and relief organisations is provided.
     Author: Hunger Site
     Subjects: food consumption, poverty, world population
     DeweyClass: 362.5
     Resource type: documents

Kitchen Link

Collection of food related resources featuring recipe archives, a listing of cookbooks which can be purchased via Amazon.com, and message boards dealing with topics such as catering for one, healthy meals, vegetarian recipes, and ethnic cooking.
     Author: Couch, Betsy
     Subjects: food consumption
     DeweyClass: 641.5
     Resource type: documents, forum

Obesity Resource Information Centre

Collection of factsheets on aspects of obesity such as health risks, treatment and prevention, childhood obesity, pregnancy and childbirth, effective physical activity, and social and psychological consequences.
     Author: Obesity Resource Information Centre
     Subjects: eating disorders, food consumption
     DeweyClass: 616.8
     Resource type: documents

State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999

Report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation estimating the number of people who go hungry in the industrialised world and transitional countries, and monitoring progress towards fulfilling the goal of halving the number of undernourished people in the world by 2015. Analyses reasons behind significant gains or setbacks relating to food levels during the 1990s. Report is presented as a PDF file.
     Author: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
     Subjects: food consumption, nutrition, poverty
     DeweyClass: 363.8
     Resource type: document