These easy-to-understand fact sheets show long-term trends in US consumption of sweeteners and caffeinated foods...two essentials in any techie's day. Geographic considerations in changes in food consumption over time include land use restrictions and incentives, weather shocks affecting crops, and agricultural innovations to improve yields per acre or other unit of land.
Custom research on a contract basis is available. Sara Laufer, M.A., is a Berkeley-trained demographer specializing in research, analysis, and technical writing in the domains of life-cycle trends, food demography, and health and legal policy. For information on contracted consulting services, which are priced individually, visit www.saralaufer.com. More food consumption charts and data can be found in Sara’s demographic resource for writers, Characters by the Numbers, available from CafePress.com for $12.95 per copy plus shipping and applicable tax: http://www.cafepress.com/greatcharacters. For free access to research on trends in working-age hearing loss, see http://www.whatgirl.net/research.html.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
Each GISWeekly Review delivers to its readers news concerning the latest developments in the GIS industry, along with a selection of other articles that we feel you might find interesting. |
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