malnutrition

Food economics holds important lessons about market power in supply and product markets, poverty and malnutrition, and farm size.

A combination of information and cash transfers is effective in changing maternal behavioural practices, which could bring down malnutrition

Providing vouchers for rice and eggs allowed for better targeting, increased protein consumption, and was cheaper to administer than in-kind benefits

Mothers who received modest cash inputs along with information on practices to reduce malnutrition were more likely to adopt those practices

Fighting corruption with India's new national ID system has cost some low-income households their benefits in the process

Child stunting was eradicated in developed countries during the 19th and 20th centuries. These cases yield lessons for combating stunting today.