Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed … associations with stunting. The results point to a series of policy priorities to reduce stunting: supporting the nutrition and …

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia … transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition …. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have …

individual welfare and particularly child nutrition status. This paper reviews the evidence on the effect of covariate shocks on … child nutrition status in low- and middle-income countries, the pathways through which the effect operates, and the … relationship between the timing of a child's exposure to a covariate shock and the effect on child nutrition status. The paper also …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … potentially positive impacts on child nutrition …