Abstract
I interpreted the topic to mean the contribution of food aid to improved nutritional status. There is an extensive literature on this topic but the reported findings are often contradictory. I shall, therefore, attempt only to summarize some of the important highlights and viewpoints and indicate where they point to some tentative conclusions. Food aid can contribute to improved nutritional status only if it reaches those who are undernourished or malnourished, i.e., whose nutritional status is below satisfactory levels however defined. The malnourished are, almost without exception, the poor whether they be the unemployed, refugees, landless, the indebted, or the women and children in low income households. Characteristi-
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