ArticleFood policy2024
Estimating the cost and affordability of healthy diets: How much do methods matter?
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- The Health and Environmental Impacts, Safety, and Affordability of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Health Diet: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
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- Linking Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies to Children's Dietary Intake in Urban Areas in Surabaya, Indonesia.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Diets, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Nutritional Status in Benin, Fiji, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania: Foreword.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Diet Cost and Affordability in Queensland: A Two-Year Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
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- Trade policy reform, retail food prices and access to healthy diets worldwide.World development · 2024Article
- Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring.Food policy · 2024Article
- Contribution of fish to food and nutrition security in Southern Africa: challenges and opportunities in fish production.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
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Abstract
Recently developed cost and affordability of healthy diet (CoAHD) metrics have quickly become mainstream food security indicators. However, published research on the sensitivity of estimation methods is limited. This paper focuses on two important innovations in CoAHD measurement at the global level. First, we develop a demographic scaling factor to adjust healthy diet costs for cross-country differences in age structures, since younger populations generally require fewer calories than older populations. Second, we improve the way in which household expenditure available for purchasing food ("food budgets") are derived. In addition, we explore sensitivity of global CoAHD estimates to potential problems with the representativeness and food product coverage of global food price data and vary assumptions for activity levels that shape energy expenditure requirements. We apply these explorations to the EAT-
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