This study was undertaken to understand why some SNAP participants shop at farmers markets and others in the same geographic area do not.

This study describes how farmers markets and direct marketing farmers operate and their perceived benefits and barriers to accepting SNAP.

In 2006, FNS asked the Institute of Medicine to review the WIC food packages. The IOM proposed major changes to improve nutrition and encourage breastfeeding but also expressed the concern that changes related to partial breastfeeding may have unintended consequences. The IOM recommended that FNS conduct an impact study evaluating the birth month breastfeeding changes to the WIC food packages.