The world’s largest food assistance program, India’s Public Distribution System (PDS), is bringing transformative impacts on child stunting, boosting household income, and curbing the effects of climate shocks. Nutrition Insight speaks to a co-author of a recent study on the program’s benefits to learn lessons about food transfers and preventing malnutrition. Research in the American Economic Journal found that India’s National Food Security Act of 2013 prevented almost 1.8 million children from being stunted for over five years.
