Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

Witnesses include: Rep. Bill Barrett, Larry Combest, Earl F. Hilliard, Debbie Stabenow, Charles W. Stenholm, and George E. Nethercutt, Jr.; Daniel G. Amstutz, pres. and ceo, North American Grain Export Grain Assoc., Inc.; Harry Cleberg, pres. and ceo, Farmland Industries, Inc.; Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary, Economics, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Dan Glickman, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; David Hillman , v.p., Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation; Roger Pine, Nat. Corn Growers Assoc.; Wes Sims, Nat. Farmers Union; Loy Sneary, U.S. Rice Producers and U.S.A. Rice Federation; and Mike Yost, pres., American Soybean Assoc.

Provided are over 500 citations with abstracts of food-related documents released by the General Accounting Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Reserch Service, and Congressional Committees from July 1973 through September 1977. Topics are: domestic feeding programs; food safety and quality; nutrition education; nutrition surveillance; farm structure; food production-resources; farm marketing and distribution; price supports, set asides, marketing orders, target prices; food aid and development assistance; trade policies and promotion; population control; internal organization and policies; food policy determination; procurement and specifications; and financial auditing. Appended are abstracts of congressional documents on food, federal information sources and systems on food, recurring reports to the Congress on food, federal program evaluations on food, and major food legislation. Subject. agency/organization, and congressional indexes are included.