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This page provides the following information:
Overview
The Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics
(RIDGE) Program encourages new and innovative research
on food and nutrition assistance issues and broadens the
participation of social science scholars in such research.
RIDGE is funded by ERS and administered in partnership
with:
The RIDGE Centers oversee the application, peer review,
award, and performance processes of the research grants
provided through the RIDGE Program. Each center serves
as a hub for mentoring and training researchers interested
in food and nutrition assistance issues and provides a
source of timely and accessible information on new research
findings. For more information, see RIDGE
at ERS.
Partnership Institutions
For details about the RIDGE Centers and their annual
research competitions, visit the institutions listed below:
- The RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Assistance
Research at the Institute
for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison,
focuses on research related to food and nutrition assistance
issues that affect the entire Nation. The IRP—one
of three Area Poverty Research Centers—is a leader
in poverty and policy research, with an extensive network
of research and policy colleagues. An important component
of IRP's work relates to determinants of food assistance
program participation and the effects of participation
on food security, obesity, and other outcomes.
- The RIDGE Center for Targeted Food and Nutrition Assistance
Research at the Southern
Rural Development Center (SRDC), Mississippi State
University, supports food and nutrition assistance research
directed at specific populations such as residents of
rural areas, Native Americans, and immigrants. The RIDGE
Center at SRDC, with an important regional focus in
the South, has strong working relationships with other
Regional Rural Development Centers. These strong relationships
provide a platform for targeted studies in areas across
the country that experience significant economic, social,
and demographic challenges that may impact the nutritional
health of their residents.
Annual Conference
ERS and the RIDGE Centers host the Food Assistance and
Nutrition RIDGE Program Conference in the fall of each
year at which RIDGE researchers present findings of completed
projects. The next conference will be held on September
23, 2011. See RIDGE Center
Research Grants for Fiscal Year 2010 for abstracts
of research project presentations scheduled for the 2011
conference.
Research Project Summaries
RIDGE, formerly the Small Grants Program, has funded
more than 220 projects at over 100 educational and research
institutions during 1998-2009. In addition to projects
funded by the current RIDGE Centers, many research projects
were conducted through previous RIDGE partners at the
American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona;
the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago;
the Joint Center for Poverty Research, the University
of Chicago and Northwestern University; and the Department
of Nutrition, University of California, Davis.
The RIDGE Program annually summarizes research findings
of projects that were awarded grants through its partner
institutions in a given year. The summaries are available
in a searchable electronic database. To perform a customized
search of all RIDGE project summaries by keyword(s), project,
research center, investigator, or year, see:
RIDGE Projects and Summaries
The RIDGE Project Summaries are also published in an
annual report. To view the reports of RIDGE project summaries
by year, see:
Visit grants.gov to
apply for grants across the Federal government.
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