Post Tagged with: "USDA"
Infographic of the Week: ‘Pink Slime’ & Processed Red Meat Are Bad for You
Red Meat Is Killing You visualizes what “pink slime’ is and how it’s made
From SXSW to the White House, Food Data a Trending Topic
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science and health. Data is also a necessary tool for lawmakers to produce smarter policy that speaks to the needs of the people
Get Your Local Farm & Food Data: Local Dirt & Locavore Launch Widget & API
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farms, farmers markets and CSAs in their combined databases, which you are now able to integrate into your own website or mobile app
Is Food Safety Going Social?
There are two interesting pieces of news from last week on the ways social media is being leveraged to share information about food safety concerns, as well as to predict outbreaks earlier
Infographic of the Week: What We Think vs. What We Do: America’s Nutrition Evolution
This week’s infographic is an interesting visual timeline of USDA Food Guidelines, including commentary about the problems associated with each version of the guideline
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Data
Yesterday, the USDA launched Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF) Compass, a new digital report that details USDA support for local and regional food projects. The wealth of data and case studies are a valuable asset for those who want to help local food economies grow
Super Tracker Yields Super Nutrition Data
The advice awaited me in my inbox Monday morning. “Use fat-free or low-fat evaporated milk in place of cream in coffee and tea for a smooth taste, more calcium, and little or no fat.” Low fat evaporated milk? I thought. Why would anyone recommend evaporated milk for healthy eating? The email was one of a
Infographic of the Week: School Breakfast
On the Friday before Christmas, Food+Tech Connect brings you a graphic from the USDA’s Economic Reporting Service to help put things into perspective
2011 Trends: Where Does Your Food Come From?
Fueled by food recalls of everything from cantaloupe to ground beef, the public is now calling for more, and more easily accessible, information about the food they eat. Food+Tech Connect reflects on the tech advancements of the last year in food traceability and will continue following this trend over the course of 2012.
Infographic of the Week: Direct Marketing of Local Foods
Local food seems to be all the rage – but how big is the trend and how is it working out for small scale farmers?
Infographic of the Week: Cotton vs Carrots
This week’s graphic compares the money given in subsidies to eight cotton farms in California to that spent on the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplying snacks to elementary schools in the state
Infographic of the Week: Time Spent on Food
This week’s Infographic of the Week is a collection of data essential for those interested in the restaurant, shopping and meal preparation habits of those in the
What the Farm Bill is Going On? A Simple Timeline of Events
Food+Tech Connect has created a simple time line (with lots of links) below to illustrate the State of the Farm Bill, and to explain that, in the end, the outcome of all this Congressional wrangling is far from the final word on the bill. Just because the “Super Committee” has the ability to cut $1.2 trillion from the U.S. budget – including at least $23 billion from agricultural programs – doesn’t mean it will actually be successful in doing so
Infographic of the Week: Food Insecurity
This week’s pick goes to the good people at GOOD, whose “transparency department” produced an infographic looking at food insecurity in the U.S. This infographic is a great example of how to take dry and boring statistics (US Census and USDA data) and turn them into an understandable and interesting visual. While the color scheme
National Agricultural Library Data Now Open, and Linked
The USDA’s National Agricultural Library (NAL) announced that its Agricultural Thesaurus is now available as Linked Open Data, making possible connections with data from other agricultural databases.
