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Program - 2009

9:00 – 9:30

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

9:30 – 9:45

OPENING
Behrakis Auditorium

 
9:45 – 11:00

1A: Labeling and Consumer Purchasing Behavior

Behrakis Auditorium


  • Accuracy of Stated Energy Contents of Prepared Foods Purchased in Restaurants and Supermarkets
  • Another Nutritional Label - Experimenting with Grocery Store Shelf Labels and Consumer Choice
  • Consumer's Purchasing Behavior Towards GM Food in China: A Naive Bayes Approach

1B: Food and Nutrition in Immigrant Households

Jaharis Room 118


  • Tortillas and Beer: Bushwick, Brooklyn’s Evolving Foodscapes
  • Impaired Fasting Glucose, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 Diabetes in Boston Puerto Rican Adults
  • Nutrition Knowledge Among Cambodian Refugee Women
 

BREAK

11:15 - 12:30

2A: Government Policy & Interventions

Behrakis Auditorium


  • Sweetening the Pot: Implicit Subsidies to Corn Sweeteners and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
  • Expert Recommendations for Improving Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Australia
  • Quantifying the Trade and Welfare Impacts of US COOL Legislation on the Tomato Trade with Mexico

2B: Food, Nutrition &
Health

Jaharis Room 118


  • Agrodiversity and Use of Traditional Foods Relate to Dietary Diversity and Biodiversity
  • Household Food Demand and Health Concerns: A Dynamic Analysis of Panel Data from China
  • Women's Income Share and Child Nutritional Outcome in China
12:30 – 1:15

LUNCH
Jaharis Café and (Overflow seating in Room 156)

 
1:15 – 2:00

POSTER SESSION

2:00 – 3:15

3A: New Directions for Food
& Farming

Behrakis Auditorium


  • Beyond Gardens: Food and Urban Design in San Francisco
  • Biodiesel Production on New England Farms
  • A Review of Tools for Measuring Carbon “Foodprints”: Life Cycle Assessment, Carbon Calculators and the Indirect GHG Emissions from Food Consumption

3B: International Child Health
& Nutrition

Jaharis Room 118


  • An Apprenticeship Model for Establishing an Animal Source Food Intervention for Preschool Children in Rural El Salvador
  • Complementary Feeding Education in Ghana Health Services
  • Nutrition Education Alone in not Sufficient to Prevent Stunting
 

BREAK

3:30 – 4:45

PANEL: New Approaches to Feeding the World

Moderated by Parke Wilde, Ph.D. (bio)

4:45 – 5:00

CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARDS