Mid-day meal programme linked to improved growth in children of beneficiaries, says study (News Click)

News Click published an article on findings of the IFPRI study, Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program. The findings show that investments made in school meals in previous decades were associated with improvements in future child linear growth. Senior Research Fellow Harold Alderman said, “Findings from previous evaluations of India’s MDM scheme have shown a positive association with beneficiaries’ school attendance, learning achievement, hunger and protein-energy malnutrition, and resilience to health shocks such as drought—all of which may have carryover benefits to children born to mothers who participated in the programme.”  Also published in Eureka Alert.