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 …

potentially positive impacts on child nutrition …

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 …