Cooperative Agreement 58400060059R

This Project Grant award of $481,673.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA #10.310, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to Colorado State University will fund three interrelated empirical analyses. The first objective is to assess the incidence and determinants of persistent food insecurity among U.S. minorities using Current Population Survey - Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) data. The second objective is to combine CPS-FSS data...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on measuring the impacts of community seed banks on nutrition, food security, and food sovereignty in underserved regions of the United States. The research objective is to identify existing agrobiodiversity conservation initiatives, such as community seed banks, in high-poverty and food-insecure regions, and trace...

This $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles to address college food insecurity and promote healthy eating among vulnerable student populations. Over the one-year period from December 2022 through November 2023, the grantee and sub-awardee Chico State Enterprises will develop a framework for understanding barriers to and motivators for food...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), aims to understand food security challenges faced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The $296,784 award to the University of New Hampshire will be used to conduct a formative qualitative study with 30 people with IDD and their family members to explore their...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $748,674 provides funding under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop predictive models and co-produce actionable outputs with stakeholders to improve resilience of global and local food security in the face of climate extremes. The University of California, Santa Barbara leads this research collaboration awarded on December 15, 2022 for completion by November 30, 2023. The project will...

This Project Grant award of $649,931 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research to investigate labor issues in the U.S. food supply chain. The project aims to develop quantitative insights on employment dynamics, market consolidation impacts, and the relationship between labor and food prices across the food system. The research will involve compiling national...

This five-year, $521,938 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of tools and a theoretical model to bolster food system resilience and reduce human impacts from disasters at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Funded through NSF's Engineering Directorate and its Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Division, the award's objectives are to advance understanding of disruptions to social and built food environments from disasters. Key deliverables...

The University of Florida was awarded a $918,472 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The goal of the grant is to improve food security for low-income families with children ages 0-2 years old through four objectives: conducting an inventory of emergency food program availability and quality of foods appropriate for this age group; formative...

This $624,029 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a Food Index for Resilience, Security, and Tangible Solutions (FIRST) to measure community food system resilience in the face of hurricanes. A research team led by the University of Maryland Baltimore County and including subawardees the University of Arkansas and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will develop conceptual and...

This Project Grant, awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310, aims to address the issue of food insecurity in rural households in the United States, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The $289,065 research project will be conducted by Tennessee State University (TSU) and will employ a two-phase qualitative and quantitative...