Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother …, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from …

Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel is the increased … channels, this note identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i …) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African …

managed by the Government of Kenya and a number of international organizations including the World Food Program (WFP), the … Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Recognizing that response needs …