SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Despite the nutritional guidelines promoting consumption of fruits and vegetables, the level of fruits and vegetable consumption is drastically below the recommended levels nationally, as well as at the state levels. Among factors that may influence consumption of fruits and vegetables, it is held that factors within the food environment such as the availability of retail types that are conducive for easy access to fruits and vegetables within communities may be presenting barriers to purchase. We employ multilevel modeling approaches to investigate the determinants of fruit and vegetable intake in North Carolina, accounting for food environment factors. Results of the study indicate that availability of supermarkets and full service restaurants is...

DETERMINANTS OF UNSAFE HAMBURGER COOKING BEHAVIOR

Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98751

Ralston, Katherine L.; Starke, Yolanda; Adu-Nyako, Kofi; Lin, Chung-Tung Jordan.

We used a national hamburger preparation survey to estimate a simultaneous equation model of food safety knowledge, attitudes, and hamburger cooking behavior. The results suggest that food safety risk perceptions, palatability attributes, and food safety knowledge play important roles in determining food preparation behavior.

Disparities in Retail Store and Fruit and Vegetable Access by Area Racial Segregation

Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 1998

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20973

FOOD SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF CONSUMERS IN THE SOUTHERN BLACK BELT OF THE U.S.

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123987

Adu-Nyako, Kofi; Thompson, Alton.

A new data set is used to study differences in the food safety perceptions and behavior of black and white consumers in the Southern Black Belt of the US. Analysis of general food safety risk perceptions and ethnic origin indicate no significant differences in the perceptions of blacks and whites. Further, the issue of 'misperception' by consumers of the origin of most foodborne illness is not explained by sociodemograhic factors but rather consumers information sources and awareness of foodborne pathogens.

Food retail provisioning, dietary behavior and weight outcomes in North Carolina

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Risk perception; Ethnic; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 1999

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21611

Aspects of the built environment may be contributing to the upward trend in obesity through constrained availability and affordability of healthful foods. The neighborhood food environment factors such as the availability of food retail stores is increasingly being recognized as playing an important role in health behaviors and health outcomes. We examine the local availability of retail food stores and their influence on the risk of obesity in North Carolina. Data on food stores were linked through county codes to individual data from the BRFSS data and multilevel modeling was employed to assess their associations with BMI. In regressions that included fruit and vegetable servings, and food store types as explanatory variables, our result show that BMI...

The “Made in USA poultry label” and consumer choice in Ghana

Palavras-chave: Food Environment; Dietary Behavior; Obesity; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56474

Egyir, Irene Susana; Adu-Nyako, Kofi; Okafor, Ralph.

Market survey data from Ghana was used to gain understanding of consumers’ attitudes, preferences for foreign food products, and the role product country of origin plays in the demand for poultry. Intention to purchase poultry from the US was anchored on product packaging, quality, expiry date and country of origin.

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Country of origin; Consumer preference; Poultry demand; Ghana; US exports.; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Marketing; Q13; Q17.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119745

EVALUATION OF EXPORT PROMOTION PROGRAMS ON TRADE OF HIGH-VALUED AND PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA AGRIBUSINESS

Amponsah, William A.; Adu-Nyako, Kofi; Pick, Daniel H..

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 1996

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51209

SAFE HANDLING LABELS AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE SOUTHERN US

Adu-Nyako, Kofi; Kunda, Danny; Ralston, Katherine L..

The impact of safe handling labels on food handling practices is assesed using a two step procedure to adjust for sample selection bias in the label use decision. A significant positive influence of labels on safe handling practices is found. Food safety knowledge, consumer risk perception, and illness experience impacted handling practices positively.

Association Between the Food Environment and Obesity in North Carolina: A Multilevel Analysis of the Role of Food Retail Sources and Obesity

Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21925