CANDASA

Changing Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa and South Asia: New price indexes to measure food system change

Events & presentations

Overviews of project results
  • July 23, 2020: Webinar on SOFI 2020 results
  • July 14, 2020: Discussion & launch of SOFI 2020
    • video from the event page at IFPRI
  • June 23, 2020: Learning Lab for ANH Academy  Week
    • video and slides (scroll to “Affordability of Nutritious Diets”)
  • Mar 30, 2020: Price indexes for food system change – DFID economics seminar
  • Oct 23, 2019: Affordability of nutritious diets – Friedman schoolwide seminar
  • Sept 16, 2019: Markets for nutrition – summary of ARENA & CANDASA results at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • May 29, 2019: Policy seminar of CANDASA results at IFPRI
Other seminars and conference presentations

Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Atlanta

Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week, Hyderabad 

American Society for Nutrition, Baltimore

Previous events

  • June 6, 2019: W.A. Masters – ICABR session on Food Systems
    • Affordability of nutritious diets as a policy indicator [slides]
  • April 24, 2019:  W.A. Masters, Y. Bai & K. Schneider — Tufts Global Health Seminar Series
    • The cost of nutritious diets in Africa, South Asia and worldwide [slides]
  • February 21, 2019: Anna Herforth — Seminar at Cornell Program on International Nutrition
    • New metrics for monitoring food systems and diets globally
  • January 5, 2019: Robel Alemu and Steven Block – Presentation in ASSA session on markets and health
    • Where are nutritious diets most expensive? Evidence from 195 foods in 164 countries [paper, slides]
  • December 17, 2018: Will Masters – Seminar at IFPRI
    • Measuring the cost of nutritious diets:  Methods and results from the CANDASA project [slides]
  • November 7, 2018: Anna Herforth – Seminar at Montana State University
    • The cost of nutritious diets in Africa and South Asia
  • October 16, 2018: Will Masters – Presentation at BIFAD public meeting before World Food Prize events, Des Moines
    • Diet Transformation in the Context of Evolving Food Environments [link]
  • October 6-7, 2018:  Daniel Sarpong and Fulgence Mishili – Presentation for AERC AFPON project in Nairobi, Kenya
    • Impacts of agricultural and trade policy on the cost of nutritious diets in Ghana and Tanzania
  • September 25, 2018: Anna Herforth – Ag2Nut webinar about the ANH Academy
    • Reporting back from ANH2018 (includes Learning Lab materials) [link]
  • August 5-7, 2018:  Yan Bai — Poster session at AAEA in Washington, D.C.
    • Seasonality in the cost of nutritious diets by region in Tanzania [poster]
  • July 28, 2018: Will Masters — Presentation at ARENA workshop for ICAE in Vancouver, BC
    • New price indexes to measure food system change [slides in PPT and PDF]
  • June 29, 2018:  Anna Herforth — Presentation at ANH Academy Week in Accra, Ghana
    • The cost of nutritious diets in Africa and South Asia: New insights from food price data [video (10 min)]
  • June 28, 2018: Daniel Sarpong — Presentation for AERC AFPON project in Accra, Ghana
    • Impacts of agricultural and trade policy on the cost of nutritious diets in Ghana and Tanzania [slides]
  • June 27, 2018:  Anna Herforth, Daniel Sarpong & Will Masters — Workshop with Ghanaian officials [photos]
    • Food price monitoring in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
  • June 25-26, 2018:  Will Masters, Daniel Sarpong & Anna Herforth — Learning Lab at ANH Academy Week in Accra, Ghana
  • June 12, 2018:  Yan Bai — Oral presentation at American Society for Nutrition, Boston MA
    • Seasonality in the Cost of Nutritious Diets versus Caloric Adequacy in Tanzania  [abstract, slides]
  • June 12-15, 2018:  Yan Bai and Will Masters — Presentation at World Bank ICABR, Washington DC
    • Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Spatial and Seasonal Variation in Tanzania [slides]
  • May 16, 2018: Will Masters — Nutrition Hub webinar for DFID staff [slides]
    • The Cost of Healthy Diets: Novel Food Price Indexes Based on Nutritional Attributes
  • April 2, 2018: Anna Herforth — Seminar at Harvard School of Public Health
    • The cost of nutritious diets in Africa and South Asia
  • March 28, 2018: Will Masters — Seminar at UConn [slides and paper]
    • Measuring the (un)affordability of healthy diets: New price indexes for the cost of meeting international nutrition standards
  • March 1, 2018:  Anna Herforth (with Felipe Dizon) — Seminar at the World Bank
    • The cost of nutritious foods in South Asia: Novel insights from food price data
  • Feb. 14, 2018:  Fulgence Mishili –Presentation at 4th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC), Dodoma, Tanzania
  • Jan 5, 2018:  Yan Bai  – Presentation at ASSA session on Agriculture, Diets and Health
    • Measuring the Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa [slides and paper]
  • Nov 15, 2018:  Daniel Sarpong – Presentation at EU JRC-IFPRI conference on Food and Nutrition Security
    • Affordability of Nutritious Diets: Mainstreaming new metrics in Ghana’s food price monitoring institutions [slides & event info ]
  • Nov 8, 2017:  Yan Bai – Poster at Harvard University conference on Agriculture, Nutrition, Health and the Environment in Africa
    • Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Ghana and Tanzania [poster]