Informing Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy: 10 Years of Research at ERS

By Victor Oliveira

Miscellaneous Publication No. (MP-1598) 62 pp, December 2007

Since 1998, Congress has provided funds to ERS to study and evaluate the Nation’s domestic food and nutrition assistance programs. ERS has become the premier source of food and nutrition assistance research in the United States, sponsoring over 600 publications on a wide range of topics related to food and nutrition assistance. This report, prepared at the 10-year anniversary of the FANRP program, highlights some of the key research conducted during the program’s first decade.

See also FANRP Research Findings.

Keywords: Food and nutrition assistance, FANRP, Food Stamp Program, child nutrition programs, WIC, economic linkages, income volatility, welfare reform, food security, childhood obesity, dietary reference standards, data development, ERS, USDA

In this report ...

Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Abstract and Contents, 224 kb.
• Introduction, 529 kb.
• Food Stamp Program Research, 290 kb.
• Child Nutrition Programs Research, 293 kb.
• WIC Program Research, 335 kb.
• Linkages With the Economy, 207 kb.
• Income Volatility, 174 kb.
• Welfare Reform, 238 kb.
• Food Security, 294 kb.
• Childhood Obesity, 304 kb.
• Dietary Reference Standards and Nutrition Monitoring, 208 kb.
• Data Development, 159 kb.
• Addressing the Future, 99 kb.
• References, 77 kb.
• Appendix, 60 kb.

• Entire document, 2,882 kb.

Updated date: December 6, 2007