Food Environment Atlas

A Milestone Year for USDA’s Economic Research Service

May 04, 2011 Mary Bohman, Director, Resource and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service

This year, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) celebrates its 50 th anniversary. ERS was established on April 3, 1961 during the Kennedy Administration, when USDA combined the Department’s economic research functions into one agency. The functions of our predecessor agency, the Bureau of...

Research and Science

Mapping the Food Environment

January 19, 2011 Elise Golan, Economic Research Service

About this time last year, the city of Washington, DC was digging out from a record amount of snow. My colleagues at USDA’s Economic Research Service were communicating electronically to get a new web-based mapping tool – the Food Environment Atlas – up and running. This online tool, which measures...

Food and Nutrition

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