This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate past and potential future roles of policies such as farm subsidies, public agricultural R&D, food assistance programs, taxes on particular foods (such as sodas) or nutrients (such as fat), food labeling laws, and advertising controls. The findings are mostly negativeit is generally not economic to use farm and food policies as obesity policybut some food policies that combine incentives and information have potential to make a worthwhile impact. This book is accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the sciences and social sciences, as well as to decision-makers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
Winner of the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
TARGET AUDIENCEThe book will be pitched at a broad general audience. It will be accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students across a range of disciplines in the sciences and social sciences in particular in schools of nutrition, public policy, public health, economics, and agricultural economics as well as decision-makers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, and the general public.The book will be suitable for use as a supplementary text for classes in food and nutrition and related policy, and in agricultural economics courses dealing with food policy, but it will not be written primarily for those purposes. Emphasis will be placed on making the material interesting and accessible to a broader audience but without undue sacrifice of substanclÓ˘
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