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U.S. nutrition and agricultural research : overview, funding issues and trends / Arlene Ramos, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Agriculture issues and policies series.
- Agriculture issues and policies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nutrition--Research--United States.
- Nutrition.
- Nutrition policy--United States.
- Nutrition policy.
- Nutrition--Research--United States--Finance.
- Agriculture--Research--United States.
- Agriculture.
- Federal aid to research--United States.
- Federal aid to research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the structure and function of the U.S. nutrition research system, with an emphasis on trends in Federal support. It describes how nutrition research is used, especially for nutrition education and communication, but also for regulation and food assistance. The book uses the Human Nutrition Research Information Management database maintained by the National Institutes of Health to analyze long-term trends. Furthermore, this book provides a background, and examines issues of agricultural research; and shows scenarios of public agricultural research spending and future U.S. agricultural productivity growth.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63484-179-4
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