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Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program: Executive Summaries of 2004 Research Grants

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Eileen Stommes, editor

Contractor and Cooperator Report No. (CCR12) 51 pp, October 2005

This report summarizes findings from Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program research projects that were awarded 1-year grants in the summer and fall of 2003. The results of the research projects were presented at the December 2004 Small Grants Program Conference. The projects focus on the economics of obesity, food insecurity and childhood obesity, fod assistance program participation and household well-being, community influence on food assistance and dietary choices, and welfare reform and food assistance program participation. Several projects focus on specifc populations, such as people living in the rural South and those living on American Indian reservations.

Keywords: Food assistance, nutrition, food security, food insecurity, hunger, obesity, childhood obesity, food spending, Food Stamp Program, food stamps, WIC, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, ERS, USDA

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Abstract, Contents, and Preface, 94 kb
Introduction, 64 kb
Economics of Obesity, 73 kb
Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity, 73 kb
Food Assistance Program Participation and Household Well-Being, 78 kb
Community Influence on Food Assistance and Dietary Choices, 85 kb
Welfare Reform and Food Assistance Participation, 73 kb
Entire report, 284 kb

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Updated date: October 14, 2005

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