Key Points
- The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative has numerous program area priorities in the three Requests for Applications posted each year. Each program area priority has its own deadline(s).
- This program supports work to prevent and control diet-related chronic diseases by supporting and encouraging culturally relevant, healthy dietary choices through data-driven, flexible, and customer-focused approaches.
- Program Area Approaches include:
- Precision nutrition, also referred to as personalized nutrition, which focuses on individuals rather than groups of people, or specific historically underserved communities rather than the general population
- Nutrition education that motivates or facilitates voluntary adoption of food choices and other food and nutrition-related behaviors conducive to lifelong health and well-being
- Policy, systems, and/or environmental change efforts supportive of healthy food and physical activity behaviors
- Culturally and contextually appropriate approaches to tackle food and nutrition insecurity and prevent and control diet-related chronic diseases and corresponding disparities.
- Projects must reflect understanding of the multifaceted and interactive nature of research, education, and extension-outreach.
FIM Opportunities
Applicants could potentially advance Food Is Medicine approaches by working to:
- Develop, implement, and evaluate innovative research, education, and outreach strategies to improve eating patterns that prevent and control diet-related chronic diseases.
- Investigate, assess, and recommend food and nutrition research and program interventions with the goal to achieve food and nutrition security and improve and sustain health.
- Improve food security and nutritional health outcomes for racial/ethnic minority populations, underserved populations, and rural or remote populations through an evidence-based approach to healthy eating and active living.
