Source: USDA/ERS submitted to
SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM
Sponsoring Institution
Economic Research Service/USDA
Project Status
REVISED
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0406627
Grant No.
(N/A)
Project No.
FANRP 047
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Program Code
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Apr 28, 1998
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2004
Grant Year
(N/A)
Project Director
Stommes, E.
Recipient Organization
USDA/ERS
1800 M STREET NW
WASHINGTON,DC 20036
Performing Department
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
Non Technical Summary
This project stimulates new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues, and broadens the participation of social science scholars in these issues. The Small Grants Program was established in 1998 and is being administered at five academic institutions and affiliated research institutes.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
0%
Applied
100%
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
61050103010100%
Knowledge Area
610 - Domestic Policy Analysis;

Subject Of Investigation
5010 - Food;

Field Of Science
3010 - Economics;
Goals / Objectives
To stimulate new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues, and to broaden the participation of social science scholars in these issues. The Small Grants Program was established in 1998 and is being administered at five academic institutions and affiliated research institutes.
Project Methods
This project encompasses a wide variety of topics and research methodologies that are specific to each of the small grants, including multivariate regression techniques of existing datasets, gathering original data, and ethnographic approaches.

Progress 10/01/04 to 09/30/05

Outputs
The annual Small Grants Program conference was held on October 27-28, 2005. Grantees presented eighteen papers funded through the Program, and received feedback from discussants and conference participants. Key conference themes included the participation in and impacts of the Food Stamp Program, nutritional impacts of WIC, factors that influence childhood obesity, and food insecurity among vulnerable populations. The annual program report was issued on a CD in lieu of a print report. The CD links to the five participating institutions and includes all annual reports issued since the Program's inception in 1998.

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

  • Stommes, E., 2005, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2004 Research Grants, Economic Research Report, CCR-12, ERS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, October, pp.


Progress 10/01/03 to 09/30/04

Outputs
The annual Small Grants Program conference was held on December 2-3, 2004. Grantees presented twenty papers funded through the Program, and received feedback from discussants and conference participants. Key conference themes included the economics of obesity, food insecurity and childhood obesity, food assistance program participation and household well-being, community influence on food assistance and dietary choices and welfare reform and food assistance participation. The annual program report was issued on a CD in lieu of a print report. The CD links to the five participating institutions and includes all annual reports issued since the Program's inception in 1998.

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

  • Tiehen, L., 2003, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2001 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR 37, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, 34 pp.
  • Tiehen, L., 2003, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2002 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR 38, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, 30 pp.
  • Stommes, E., Tiehen, L., 2004, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2003 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR-43, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, December, pp.


Progress 10/01/02 to 09/30/03

Outputs
In fiscal year 2003, ERS hosted the third annual Small Grants Conference to bring together the 2001-2002 grant recipients to present and discuss the results of their research on a wide variety of food assistance and nutrition topics. Five academic institutions and research institutes work in partnership with ERS to administer the program. They include the Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago, the Institute for Research on Poverty at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University, the University of Arizona American Indian Studies Program, and the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Each has an expertise of particular relevance to the study of food assistance programs, nutrition, or related issues within a specific low income population. Each center requested and reviewed proposals for the 2002-2003 grant recipients, and monitored the progress of their grant recipients in fiscal year 2003.

Impacts
(N/A)

Publications

  • Tiehen, L., "FANRP 2002 Small Grants Conference: Agenda and Poster", Poster presented ERS Small Grants Conference, October 17, 2002.
  • Tiehen, L., 2003, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2001 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR 37, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, 34 pp.
  • Tiehen, L., 2003, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2002 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR 38, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November, 30 pp.
  • Vandeman, A., 2002, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2000 Research Grants, Food and Nutrition Research Report, FANRR-20, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, August, pp.