It was launched in September 2010 to reduce food miles and increase consumption of locally-grown and made produce.
An expansion of social programs like this will help increase consumption of prescription drugs, which could grow the addressable market for pharmacies.
Agrimonde's authors suggest that by consuming 25% less in developed countries, developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, could increase consumption by 30%.
This does not necessarily warrant increased advertising spending, but rather effective communication of a targeted message in order to increase consumption per user.
Any rise in home prices could still increase consumption, even if it does so by removing credit constraints rather than through the wealth effect.
And just as Europe needs to make structural changes to engineer a recovery, China must fundamentally transform its economy if it wants to increase consumption.
So displaying healthy foods in highly visible areas will increase consumption.
Offering healthy foods that have more flavour complexity, such as a fruit salad (instead of a whole fruit) can increase consumption due to both variety and convenience.
Cleaner coal technologies such as coal gasification will reduce that need by as much as half but, emerging concepts like carbon capture and burial could increase consumption between 30-100 percent.
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Lardy and others argue that one way to increase consumption in China is to extend the social safety net to include rural residents, who now have to pay most of the costs of education, health, and retirement.
But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
Although it may be likely that after six months production increase will surpass the consumption increase, there will be that initial period in which energy will be expended, but none received in return.
We have already shown that there is nothing in its character or uses that should prevent a corresponding increase of consumption, but, on the contrary, which would rather induce a greater increase: then the only other consideration is, would the facilities of obtaining supplies have been as great?
These rapid U.S. declines may be short-lived, as natural-gas prices rise and utilities increase coal consumption.
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Many believe China has to increase domestic consumption, rather than relying on investment in infrastructure projects and exports to fuel growth.
The increase in consumption could be tenuous as unemployment continues to rise and home prices continue to fall.
The city often experiences power shortages in winter because of an increase in consumption as well as power theft.
In 2009, Virginia Tech researchers found that there were some traffic calming measures that actually increase fuel consumption and emissions.
Two trends are driving this investment: rising urbanization, which should increase domestic consumption, combined with growing wealth due to employment growth.
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The committee responsible has come up with a proposal to increase the consumption (VAT) tax from 5 to 10 percent by 2015.
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And what kind of assurances are you hoping to get from China that they won't increase their consumption of oil from Iran?
While the increase in consumption by no means indicates an economy that will definitely avoid a recession, it does suggest deflation could be avoided.
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Demand for natural gas is set to rise in the U.S. as power plants and the industrial sector increase their consumption of the fuel.
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Thus, if Obamacare succeeds in its mission, more people will have access to medical care financing and will increase their consumption of medical treatment.
Elliott says he has orders for some 200 trucks from such outfits as electric utilities (which want to encourage their use to increase electricity consumption).
"I have no hesitation in recommending that people increase their consumption of omega-3s, even if they are not ill, because they are protective, " he said.
Lower gas prices will increase energy consumption and displace some lower-carbon nuclear power and renewables, but will also squeeze out some dirty coal and oil.
Without brand advertising to maintain market share the increased availability of cheap imports and smuggled tobacco products may well give rise to an increase in consumption.
India's GDP growth in the current fiscal year and the next is likely to be supported by an increase in consumption and investments, the World Bank said.
China will steadily increase the consumption of goods it produces, which is consistent with the growth of the middle class to be 30% of the total population by 2020.
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