America's Changing Appetite
...New Report, Household Food
Security in the United States, 2000
Consumer-Driven Agriculture
2 America's Changing Appetite: Food
Consumption and Spending to 2020
Noel Blisard, Biing-Hwan Lin, John Cromartie, and Nicole
Ballenger
10 Population Growth and Demographic Change,
1980-2020
John Cromartie
13 New Health Information Is Reshaping Food
Choices
Jayachandran N. Variyam and Elise Golan
19 Changing Consumer Demands Create
Opportunities for U.S. Food System
David E. Davis and Hayden Stewart
24 Food Product Introductions Continue To Decline
in 2000
J. Michael Harris
28 Innovation by Food Companies Key to Growth
and Profitability
Hayden Stewart and Steve Martinez
33 Farm Business Practices Coordinate Production
With Consumer Preferences
Steve Martinez and David E. Davis
39 U.S. Food Sector Linked to Global Consumers
Anita Regmi and Greg Pompelli
America's appetite, like its population,
is always changing.
Foods once favored are now rarely
eaten. Foods once only dreamed
about are a reality. Dining out, once
thought to be a luxury, is now common.
The Nation's population is
wealthier, older, more educated,
and more ethnically diverse than
in the past. And these demographic
changes are likely to become more
pronounced in the next 20 years.
Consumers will continue to demand
new food products, new packaging,
more convenience, new delivery
systems, and safer and more nutritious
foods. Consequently, USDA's
Economic Research Service (ERS)
has undertaken an extensive effort
to project how population growth,
an aging population, ethnic diversity,
other demographic trends, and
income growth will affect future
food choices and how the food system
will respond to such changes.
By 2020, the U.S. population
will add between 50 and 80 million
peopleall becoming part of the
food system. Based on an increase
of 50...
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