The activities that caused the greatest difficulty and created most dependence, and in which almost all the respondents participated, were non-food shopping and seeing their families.
The remaining neighborhood characteristics are captured by a proxy variable, indicating the median per capita expenditure on food and non-food items, in the neighborhood/community in question.
Four challenges for crop scientists are discussed: lowering crop inputs; the impacts of climate variability and change; optimizing crop quality; and new crops for non-food products.
Changes were limited, however, to food- or farm-related attitudes and behaviors and did not spill over into non-food consumption categories.
As capital, unskilled labor, and skilled labor move out of non-food manufacturing and into other sectors, environmental pressures associated with those sectors increase.
Second, in most developing countries, food and non-food prices vary by region.
The other six sectors are food manufacturing, non-food manufacturing, petroleum refining, infrastructure, private services, and government services.
Expenditure on person-to-person purchases of non-food goods is more complicated to interpret.
