FANRP
2004 AwardsFANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Program made awards in fiscal 2004 to fund research on strengthening economic incentives in food assistance programs; food assistance as a safety net; and obesity, diet quality, and health outcomes. A press
release, descriptions
of the projects and awards
from previous years are also available.
Food
Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Final Report: Fiscal 2003 ActivitiesProvides
an overview of FANRP's research themes, principles, and activities and
describes the objectives of individual research projects.
Although the deadline for proposals for FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program has passed, the publication Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program: Description and Application Process, Fiscal 2004, and the Budget form ARS-455 remain on the site for reference.
To meet the programmatic needs of USDA and to promote research from a
broad arena, FANRP uses a variety of funding mechanisms for its extramural
research.
Contracts are used when a very specific product is required, such as
compliance with a Congressional mandate. When the intent is to stimulate
new and innovative research or to conduct projects jointly with ERS researchers,
FANRP uses its Competitive Grants and Cooperative
Agreements Program or its Small Grants Program.
Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements
Program
This program awards grants and cooperative agreements between $100,000
and $300,000. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded
through the use of peer review panels.
The Priority Research Areas identified for fiscal 2004 are:
- Strengthening economic incentives in food assistance programs
- Food assistance as a safety net
- Obesity, diet quality, and health outcomes
Small Grants Program
The Small Grants Program seeks to stimulate new and innovative research
on food assistance and nutrition issues and to broaden the participation
of social science scholars in these issues. Small grants last for 1 year;
most are in the range of $20,000 to $40,000. The program is funded by
ERS and is administered through selected universities and their associated
research institutes located at five sites. The five institutions administer
the application and peer review processes. Each of the institutions takes
a different aspect of food assistance, nutrition, or subgroup of recipients
as its primary focus.
For details about the individual programs, visit the
institutions listed below:
Southern
Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University focuses on
food assistance effects on rural people, families, and communities in
the South. The Center has also initiated a dialogue among scholars by
establishing a Rural South Food Assistance Research Task Force.
The
American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona is working
with scholars at tribal colleges and elsewhere to support research on
the unique issues and problems of Native Americans with respect to food
assistance. Their small grants program focuses on the relationship between
food assistance programs on reservations and family poverty.
Institute
for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin focuses its research
on the effects of food assistance on individual and family well-being
and food security.
The Joint Center for Poverty
Research, University of Chicago and Northwestern University focuses
on interactions between food assistance and other welfare programs and
linkages between the macroeconomy and food assistance.
Department of Nutrition, University
of California, Davis focuses research on the impact of food assistance
programs on nutritional risk indicators (anthropometric, biochemical,
clinical, and dietary), food purchasing practices, and food insecurity.
This program encourages examinations of multiple indicators of nutrition
impact and interdisciplinary approaches that integrate epidemiology, economics,
or anthropology with nutrition.
for more information, contact: Victor
Oliveira
web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov
page updated:
October 14, 2004
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