Few studies have been performed to use the detailed healthy eating index (HEI) to estimate consumer demand for diet quality. In this article, we apply household production theory to systematically estimate consumer demand for diet quality using the HEI developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The results show that consumers have insufficient consumption of food containing dark green and...

Millions of tons food from grocery stores go to waste every year in the US, while many people consistently depend on community banks. Having a plan transport surplus needy will eliminate both and hunger at same time. This problem is modeled as bipartite graph with one set vertices representing donors certain excess various types, other banks demand different types food, cost transportation each...

Current food production faces tremendous challenges from growing human population, maintaining clean resources and food qualities, and protecting climate and environment. Food sustainability is mostly a cooperative effort resulting in technology development supported by both governments and enterprises. Multiple attempts have been promoted in tackling challenges and enhancing drivers in food pr...

Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions From U. S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona The purpose of this paper is the application of four popular theoretically plausible consumer demand systems to a common cross-sectional data set that combines expenditure data from the quarterly BLS consumer expenditure surveys with price data that are colle...