Project Number: 6251-53000-004-30
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Jul 01, 2003
End Date: Jun 30, 2008

Objective:
A primary objective of the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Delta NIRI) Consortium mission being conducted in part under this cooperative agreement is to develop nutrition intervention strategies in the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) through community-based participatroy research. The specific objective of this cooperative research project is to establish a community participatory structure (Hollandale Nutrition Intervention Research Iniative [Hollandale NIRI]) that will evaluate nutritional health in the Hollandale, Mississippi community, identify nutritionally responsive problems, and design, conduct, and evaluate interventions which may be sustained at the community level.

Approach:
Developing capacity as necessary, the City of Hollandale, Mississippi, will foster and support the Hollandale Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Hollandale NIRI), a community group that will work in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and other Delta NIRI Consortium partners, to design, develop, conduct, support, and facilitate nutrition interventions related to the nutritional status of the Hollandale community. Following implementation and evaluation of these nutrition intervention strategies in teh Hollandale community, the Delta NIRI Consortium will identify successful intervention strategies, evaluate the impact of community participation, determine specific characteristics of the community that contributed to success, and evaluate the feasibility of adapting those successful intervention strategies to other communities with similar needs.