Previous Newsroom Items: July 2008

School Lunch Program: Trends and Issues (July 18, 2008)
Report covers participant characteristics of the Nation’s second-largest food and nutrition program and focuses on rising costs, changing nutritional requirements, and program access and integrity. 
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EU’s Sugar Policy Reform (July 16, 2008)
ERS examines the implications and potential impacts of the first major reform of the 2005 reform of the European Union’s sugar policy, the first major reform of the policy since 1968.
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Profile of Hired Farmworkers
(July 11, 2008)
ERS examines the size, importance, and composition of the hired farmworker force, updating information published in 2000. These workers make up a third of the farm labor force.
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Ag-Related Investment in India
(July 9, 2008)
Investment in India’s agriculture sector has been sluggish since the early 1990s, but the policy environment has grown more investor friendly and private investment appears to be responding.
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Food Security Assessment, 2007
(July 3, 2008)
The number of food-insecure people (those consuming less than 2,100 calories per day) in 70 developing countries rose from 849 million in 2006 to 982 million in 2007. Food security situation in these countries is likely to deteriorate in the next decade.
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