Sentences with phrase «food subsidy programs»

The premiums derive from expensive and unsustainable food subsidy programs in the Middle East.

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Lusk is right to be skeptical of large government food programs — whether that means fat taxes or subsidies for corn.

The fees are low and on a sliding scale: government subsidies and food programs enable the centers to survive.

Besides encouraging the use of processed food, the subsidy program has had surprisingly negative effects on rural areas.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

Galloway T (2014) Is the Nutrition North Canada retail subsidy program meeting the goal of making nutritious and perishable food more accessible and affordable in the North?

But I do think there's a role for government at the macro level (where it already has great influence over our food) such as corn and soy subsidies, the National School Lunch Program (and the related use of surplus farm commodities), etc..

However — and here's why the program is failing — «These subsidies are received irrespective of whether or not the student actually consumes the food» (Article by Thais Alvarez).

Think crop subsidies, expanding portion sizes, food lobbyists, and issues with the National School Lunch Program.

But my point is, the school lunch program rests on subsidies, free commodity food, and governmental reimbursement.

Food supplementation programs for pregnant women and housing subsidy programs are also likely to have positive effects on children's environments and development.

Schools that choose to take part in the National School Lunch Program get cash subsidies and donated foods from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

But if we have to treat food / ag - spending as a zero - sum game — any increase in one program must be offset by cuts in another — it would make much more sense to cut stuff like corn, soy, and cotton subsidies than to attack conservation and hunger programs.

Farm subsidies are not the only USDA program that seems to contradict the advice of the food pyramid.

Have you ever noticed that our food guidelines and Pyramid are largely based on a combination of subsidy - program foods and rationing from the British program invented by Lord Woolton?

How about we, as a nation, simply stop the governmental subsidy programs that squander our tax dollars by fleecing the pockets of agri business giants who grow foods that make us sick?

The reason for the large subsidies was simply the result of programs to make food affordable.

Dr. Hershaft stated that the nation's diet is shaped less by the science - based guidelines of this Committee than by the profit - based advertising claims of the food industry and the politically based subsidy and regulatory programs of the USDA.

Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, summer programs, housing subsidies, and the other components of Johnson's War on Poverty did not become available until 1965.

But what does that mean for a program that in any given month provides food subsidies to nearly 300 households?

Operation Feed Fido is a subsidy program through Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit in Dearborn to provide pet food and supplies to families in need.

Operation Feed Fido is a subsidy program to provide pet food and supplies to families in need.

Nutrition North Canada is a subsidy program run by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada meant to lower the price of healthy perishable foods for Canadians living in remote Northern areas.

Food supplementation programs for pregnant women and housing subsidy programs are also likely to have positive effects on children's environments and development.

Others have called for evidence - based economic interventions such as freight - subsidies, cross-subsidisation of healthy food and «fat taxes» to be trialed, or point to great potential in welfare reform and income management programs.

Regulated (state registered) child care providers may accept public funds and including the child care subsidy program for low income parents and the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program in which reimbursements are made for qualifying meals program for low income parents and the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program in which reimbursements are made for qualifying meals Program in which reimbursements are made for qualifying meals served.