nutrition education including both general education and nutritionspecific education is effective in improving nutrition fao ba however following a period of heightened food insecurity input subsidies in particular fertilizer subsidies have regained widespread popularity in africa asia and latin america and the caribbean especially following the sharp increase in food prices and fertilizer costs after they are now the most popular production support measure used although they are typically smallscale and ad hoc in the latin america and the caribbean region table demeke etal fertilizer subsidies are also attractive because they can raise food production within a relatively short time and because fertilizer use per hectare is very low in subsaharan africa compared with other regions