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AmberWaves November 03 > Indicators > Research Areas
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Markets and Trade
Diet and Health

chart - food retailers are consolidating: The top 20 firms captured nearly 60percent of total grocery store sales in 2001, up from 40 percent in 1995
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chart - children are increasingly getting their calories away from home, particularly from fast food outlets and restaurants
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Natural Resources and Environment

chart - adoption of bioenegineered crops in the U.S. has been most rapid for herbicide tolerant soybeans
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chart - intensity of pesticide use on corn and of herbicide use on cotton is declining. Herbicide use on soybeans, though stable, is changing to more environmentaly benign products
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Rural America

chart - nonmetro income growth has been slower than metro growth, causing the income gap to widen in recent years
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chart - manufacturing and farming accounted for a much greater share of nonmetro than metro jobs in 2001
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