Nutrition and Family Sciences Guide

The 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines is designed to help Americans eat a healthier diet. Intended for policymakers and health professionals, this edition of the Dietary Guidelines outlines how people can improve their overall eating patterns — the complete combination of foods and drinks in their diet. This edition offers 5 overarching Guidelines and a number of Key Recommendations with specific nutritional targets and dietary limits.

The purpose of this guide is to provide access to relevant, diverse and credible research on the role of agricultural production and food policy in achieving broad development goals. It aims to inform dialogue and the sharing of good practice by policy actors and decision makers globally around issues such as food security, land issues, food prices, gender and the role of technology and innovation.

Literature in agriculture, nutrition, animal health & natural resources.

A codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government". Search the for food and nutrition-related legislation, regulations and standards. Topics of interest include: "Agriculture," "Animals and Animal Products," and "Food and Drugs".

Links to tables and charts of DRIs, tools for calculating daily nutrient recommendations, reports on the dietary reference values for the intake of nutrients by Americans and Canadians, and historical comparisons of current DRIs compare with historic RDA values.

List of data sets on a variety of topics produced by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, this site provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.

The FAO "is an agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all."

The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors: Food Choices, Health and Well-Being, and Community Characteristics. The Atlas currently includes 168 indicators of the food environment. Some data are from the last Census of Population in 2000 while others are as recent as 2009. Some are at the county level while others are at the State or regional level. The most recent county-level data are used whenever possible.

International database providing comprehensive coverage of the core public health literature, particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, human nutrition, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology.

Science-based information on food safety and nutrition for health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others, providing information to consumers.

Produces a wide variety of publications that provide country specific and comparative data on population, health, and nutrition in developing countries.

The USDA’s Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review (NESR) team supported the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in conducting systematic reviews. Detailed information is available at the link below about the 2020 Advisory Committee’s systematic reviews, and NESR’s methodology used to conduct them.

USAID is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. USAID administers programs around the world aimed at addressing issues of agricultural development, food security and sustainability.

What We Eat in America (WWEIA) represents the integration of two nationwide surveys - USDA's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) and HHS' NHANES. Under the integrated framework, DHHS is responsible for the sample design and data collection. USDA is responsible for the survey's dietary data collection methodology, development and maintenance of the food and nutrient databases used to code and process the data, and data review and processing.

"Contain links to WHO projects, initiatives, activities, information products, and contacts, organized by health and development topics." Topics including diet, nutrition and nutrition disorders.