Abstract: We briey discuss five projects in the humanitarian sector: allocating food aid for undernutrutioned children using data from a randomized trial in sub-Saharan Africa [1], allocating food aid for undernutritioned children using data from a nutrition project in Guatemala [2], analyzing the nutrition-disease nexus in the case of malaria [3], assessing the impact of U.S.'s failure to use local and regional food procurement on childhood mortality [4], and deriving individualized biometric identification for India's universal identificationprogram [5].

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