We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …

inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between …

This paper examines how providing families with lump-sum in-kind assistance during the pandemic affected food hardship … that families spent $18-42 per student per week in the 6 weeks after benefit receipt. Household food insufficiency and … children's food insecurity among low-income families declined by 27-49% in the month following receipt, and maternal mental …

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the … and food security. On aggregate, the pandemic resulted in dramatic income losses, increases in food insecurity, and … prevalence of containment policies is associated with increased food insecurity, particularly for women, and with reduced female …

(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …