The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to the University of Massachusetts Amherst from January 2022 through December 2025. The grant will fund research to study food product reformulation and its economic and policy implications in the United States. Key activities include assembling a large dataset documenting product reformulations over the past 17 years across all U.S. regions. This...
This Project Grant award totaling $649,081 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310). The award will fund research to: Develop store-level measures of the healthfulness of food offerings that account for prices, using validated questionnaires, store-level scanner data, and product nutrition information. Identify market boundaries by store format...
This $963,368 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) supports an integrated research, extension, and education project conducted by South Dakota State University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026. The project aims to assess the cost-effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in generating...
This $800,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The project aims to identify the key factors driving recent sharp increases in U.S. food prices, including disruptions in supply chains and changes in consumer demand. The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. will lead the project, which will involve collecting detailed food price data...
This $645,743 National Institute of Food and Agriculture project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund research at the University of Florida from May 2023 through April 2027 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The project aims to design effective behavioral nudges to improve consumers' dietary choices by investigating how induced positive consumption experiences and memories with healthy foods can shift preferences. Researchers will...
This four-year project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) provides $969,890 to the University of Connecticut to deliver a multi-level intervention combining personalized nutrition education, digital food and nutrition literacy tools, and community collaboration efforts to improve diet quality and decrease chronic disease risk factors among low-income...
The University of New England (UNE) has been awarded a $1,092,498 project grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant will support research, education, and extension activities to improve nutrition security in rural underserved communities. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Implement and evaluate an innovative primary care-based healthy food prescription program paired with...
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded North Carolina State University $617,194 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program to improve identification of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participation in scanner data and quantify the effects of the 2009 WIC food package revision. The project aims to apply machine learning to scanner data from the IRI Consumer Network household panel to more...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, was awarded a $647,143 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program. The grant, effective from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2027, will fund research to investigate the impact of updated Nutrition Facts labels on consumer food choices, product reformulations by food companies, and overall diet quality in the...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research using...