The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP)
awards grants and cooperative agreements to support extramural
research that focuses on USDA's domestic food and nutrition
assistance programs. Research is targeted to meet critical
information needs of the Administration, Congress, program
managers, policy officials, clients, the research community,
and the general public. This program allows ERS to partner
with innovative, creative, and forward-looking researchers.
Major research themes of FANRP are:
- diet and nutritional outcomes,
- food program targeting and delivery, and
- program dynamics and administration.
Grants and cooperative agreements are competitively awarded
through a tightly-run peer review process. Most awards
are between $100,000 and $300,000 but may vary by particular
announcement. FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative
Agreements programs are publicly announced via ERS's website,
email updates, and Grants.gov.
FANRP also funds research opportunities through the Research
Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE)
program.
Recent Awards and Previous Years' Awards
Fiscal 2011 Awards
FANRP's competitive grants and cooperative agreements program made 10 awards in fiscal 2011 to fund research on relationships between food assistance programs, food choices, and the economy; and using behavioral economics and incentives to promote child nutrition. Behavioral economics research is part of an ongoing collaboration with USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) since FY 2010 to develop a research program in behavioral economics to study USDA's child nutrition programs.
Previous Years' Awards*
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*In each table of awards, research projects are grouped by topic area. There were no awards in fiscal 2009. |
Overview of FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative
Agreements Program
The Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program
encourages new and innovative research and joint projects
with ERS researchers.
- Grants are awarded when the research project supports
the research mission and does not require substantial
involvement between ERS staff and the extramural researchers
during the research period.
- Cooperative agreements, awarded when the research
project requires more substantial involvement between
ERS and the extramural researchers, allow ERS staff
to supplement their own expertise with the knowledge
and resources of academic and private institutions.
Submissions and Proposal Evaluation
FANRP’s competitive grants and cooperative agreements
program for fiscal 2011 was announced in February 2011.
The announcement describes the application process. The
deadline for proposal submissions is April 4, 2011. See
Food Assistance and
Nutrition Research Program, Fiscal 2011, Competitive Grants
and Cooperative Agreements Program: Description and Application
Process.
The proposal evaluation process includes peer review
panels consisting of experts from academia, government,
and the private sector. In addition to reviewer’s comments,
FANRP’s selection process considers coverage of priority
research areas, overlap between proposals and ongoing
projects, program needs, potential benefits from research
collaborations on particular projects, and availability
of funding.
Visit Grants.gov
to find and apply for grants available across the Federal
Government.
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