Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: FANRP-Sponsored Conferences

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FANRP sponsors numerous conferences to encourage interaction among researchers and policymakers. Two are held annually—the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program Conference and the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Conference: Emerging Issues and Recent Findings.

Other conferences are hosted to address timely and policy-relevant topics and are often co-sponsored with other institutions, such as the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University/University of Chicago, the Rural Policy Research Institute, and the Farm Foundation.

Upcoming conferences:

FY 2009 Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Conference—Each year, ERS sponsors a roundtable discussion to identify important and emerging research issues related to domestic food assistance and nutrition programs administered by USDA and to present recently completed research. The FY 2009 conference—Emerging Issues and Recent Findings—will be held in December 2008, in the Frederick Waugh Auditorium at ERS headquarters in Washington, DC.

RIDGE Conference—The Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program encourages new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and broadens the participation of social science scholars in this important research area. The annual conference is a forum for grant recipients and attendees to discuss results of recently funded grants on food assistance programs, food security, and nutrition. The 2008 RIDGE Conference will be held on October 16 and 17, 2008, at ERS headquarters in Washington, DC.

Prior conferences:

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Conference: Emerging Issues and Recent Findings—click on agendas from previous conferences:

• Fiscal 2008 Conference
• Fiscal 2007 Conference
• Fiscal 2006 Conference
• Fiscal 2005 Conference
• Fiscal 2004 Conference
• Fiscal 2003 Conference

RIDGE (formerly known as the Small Grants Program) Conference—click on agendas from previous conferences:

• Fiscal 2007 Conference
• Fiscal 2006 Conference
• Fiscal 2005 Conference
• Fiscal 2004 Conference
• Fiscal 2003 Conference
• Fiscal 2002 Conference
• Fiscal 2001 Conference

Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs II (November 2006)