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Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022

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  • Herforth, Anna
  • Venkat, Aishwarya
  • Bai, Yan
  • Costlow, Leah
  • Holleman, Cindy
  • Masters, William A.

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FAO is focusing its attention on the pursuit of healthy diets and transformations of agrifood systems to ensure healthy diets are affordable for all. Measuring and systematically monitoring the cost and affordability of healthy diets and making progress towards ensuring the affordability of healthy diets is of upmost importance and is urgently needed. To this end, FAO is committed to institutionalize the computation of the least-cost healthy diet, and the corresponding affordability indicator, and to publish updated estimates in the annual The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, as well as provide the full data series on FAOSTAT. This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report presents the new methodological refinements applied in the estimation of the average cost of a healthy diet. This is an important methodological update as it results in a more robust indicator that provides greater transparency and supports long-term systematic monitoring utilizing annually updated price data. The paper then explores potential mechanisms and data sources for monitoring globally the cost of a healthy diet.

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  • Herforth, Anna & Venkat, Aishwarya & Bai, Yan & Costlow, Leah & Holleman, Cindy & Masters, William A., 2022. "Methods and options to monitor the cost and affordability of a healthy diet globally Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022," ESA Working Papers 324075, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:faoaes:324075
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324075
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    1. Gilbert, Rachel D. & Masters, William A. & Block, Steven A. & Costlow, Leah & Matteson, Julia & Krivonos, Ekaterina & Rauschendorfer, Jakob, 2023. "Trade policy, retail food prices and access to healthy diets in Africa and worldwide," 2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C. 335605, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Fabián Santos & Nicole Acosta, 2023. "An Approach Based on Web Scraping and Denoising Encoders to Curate Food Security Datasets," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-19, May.
    3. Qiang Li & Ruotong Si & Sen Guo & Muhammad Ahmed Waqas & Baogui Zhang, 2023. "Externalities of Pesticides and Their Internalization in the Wheat–Maize Cropping System—A Case Study in China’s Northern Plains," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(16), pages 1-15, August.
    4. Elena M. Martinez & Nicole Tichenor Blackstone & Parke E. Wilde & Anna W. Herforth & William A. Masters, 2024. "Environmental impacts, nutritional profiles, and retail prices of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries: an observational study," Papers 2401.13159, arXiv.org.

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    Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy;
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