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Highlights Weather shocks, proxied by heat stress and drought, are found to reduce food security. Heat stress cause stronger adverse effects on food...

This study traces the causal effects of extreme weather events on nutritional and health outcomes among rural children in Uganda using four waves of individual child survey...

Highlights: Two-thirds of households in Afghanistan find it difficult to meet basic food and non-food needs. This is worrying because data collection was conducted in the...

Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers? We analyze the targeting of direct cash and food transfers distributed in Malawi in response to an exceptionally poor...

Highlights While the proportion of households with very low food security status increased between 2010/11 and 2019/20, the proportion of households with high food security status declined...