Poverty among landless agricultural workers can be addressed by improving their
health status through proper nutrition. Good health influences a person‘s ability to work
and earn a living. This paper assesses the effect of income on the nutritional status of landless
farm workers in Calauan, Laguna. Caloric intake of household members and weight
of preschool children were used as measures of nutritional status. Results show that 80%
of adults and 51% of preschool children had inadequate caloric intakes. Low caloric
intakes are associated with household income. Weight, however, is found to be normal
despite poor caloric intakes among children. Households‘ incomes are below the Laguna
poverty threshold. A third of the respondents are unable to augment income through offfarm
employment. Policy recommendations include information dissemination by the
barangay health units about programs on proper nutrition and off-farm employment
prospects for landless farm workers.