Food Chain Efficiency: Amount of energy of some other quantity extracted from a trophic level, divided by the amount of energy produced by the next-lower trophic level

 

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Food Chain Efficiency: Amount of energy of some other quantity extracted from a trophic level, divided by the amount of energy produced by the next-lower trophic level

Food Service Management Institute: This institute provides instruction, research, and materials in support of better food service management practices by child nutrition providers receiving federal support (e.g., schools oper . . . View Full Definition

Food Stamp Act Of 1964: P.L. 88-525 (August 31, 1964) provided permanent legislative authority to the Food Stamp Program, which had been administratively implemented on a pilot basis in 1962. It was later replaced . . . View Full Definition

Food Security Wheat Reserve (FSWR): Title III of the Agriculture Act of 1980 established a reserve of up to 4 million metric tons of wheat for use in meeting emergency food needs in developing countries. This reserve generally . . . View Full Definition

Food Security Commodity Reserve: A special reserve of up to 4 million metric tons of wheat, corn, sorghum, and rice to be used for international humanitarian purposes. This reserve created by the FAIR Act of 1996 is an expa . . . View Full Definition

Food Stamp Program (FSP): This program supplements the food buying power of eligible low-income households by providing them with monthly benefits through coupons or electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards. Eligibili . . . View Full Definition

Food Web: A complex network of feeding interrelations among species in a natural ecosystem; more accurate and more complex depiction of energy fiow than a food chain.

Hunger - Food Insecurity: An economic definition is the lack of food due to the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods . . . View Full Definition

Household (Foodstamp): A food stamp household is composed of all those who purchase food and prepare meals in common. All related co-residents must apply as a single food stamp household, no matter how they purcha . . . View Full Definition

Food-Borne Illnesses: Illnesses caused by pathogens that enter the human body where food is the carrier. In order of the incidence of cases, the leading pathogens are Campylobacter (bacteria commonly found in pou . . . View Full Definition