The Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program of the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) funds research to support USDA's domestic food assistance programs, including the Food Stamp Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and child nutrition programs. FANRP uses its Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program to stimulate new and innovative research and to conduct projects jointly with ERS researchers. The program is publicly announced in the spring of each year and awards are made through the use of peer review panels.

FANRP's perennial research themes are diet and nutritional outcomes, food-program targeting and delivery, and program dynamics and administration. Within these broad themes, FANRP identifies annual research priorities. In developing research priorities, FANRP works closely with USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), the agency responsible for administering the Department's food assistance and nutrition programs. FANRP also seeks input from a broad constituency of policy officials, researchers, practitioners, advocates, industry groups, and service providers. In conjunction with these activities, FANRP sponsors an annual round-table discussion to identify crucial research and information needs that would support food assistance and nutrition programs and to ensure the policy- and program-relevance of the annual research agenda. Information on these projects is available here.

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