Featured event
- October 28-30, 2024: Food Prices for Nutrition project global convening in Rome, Italy – report
Selected upcoming and past events
- Nov. 24, 2025: Indian Institute of Sciences/Tufts speed talks – slides
- Sept. 16, 2025: Asian Development Bank AFNR webinar – slides, website
- July 26, 2025: C-FARE preconference workshop at AAEA – slides, agenda
- July 25, 2025: World Bank ABCDE panel on food & nutrition – slides, video (15 min)
- June 23, 2025: ANH Academy Learning Lab (Dar es Salaam) – photos
- June 18, 2025: ANH Academy Learning Lab (online)
- May 8, 2025: FNII working group webinar – slides
- Feb 26, 2025: EcoFoodSystems webinar- video
- Jan 29, 2025: UC Davis Institute for Global Nutrition seminar (remote) – slides
- Dec 14, 2024: Tufts-Fudan International Nutrition Forum in Shanghai (remote) – slides
- Nov 11, 2024: Carbon Footprints webinar (remote) – slides
- Sept 20, 2024: I3R seminar series (remote) – slides
- Sept 5, 2024: UP-Los Banos symposium (remote) – slides, photos
- Aug 2-4, 2024: 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE, New Delhi) – slides, paper
- July 29-31, 2024: Annual meeting of the Ag. & Applied Econ. Assoc. (AAEA, New Orleans)
- July 17, 2024: CERFAM webinar on malnutrition & diet quality in Africa (info & registration, slides)
- Nov 10, 2023:J.W. Fanning lecture at the University of Georgia
- Will Masters on cost & affordability of healthy diets (slides)
- Oct 16-20, 2023: Micronutrient Forum 6th global conference
- Rachel Gilbert in a session on food environments & diet quality and diet affordability
- Kay Dewey (with Y. Bai & W.A. Masters) poster on cost of infant feeding (abstract)
- Oct 27, 2023: Committee on World Food Security (CFS 51) – WFP event on social protection for nutrition
- Saskia de Pee on using diet costs & affordability to target social assistance (video)
- Sept 20-23, 2023: EGEA International Conference on fruit, vegetables, and one health.
- Anna Herforth on accessibility of healthy and sustainable diets (slides)
- Sept 14-15, 2023: USDA ERS – Yeutter Institute joint Food Security Research Symposium
- Will Masters on using least-cost diets to monitor and improve food access (slides)
- Aug 14-15, 2023: U.S. National Academies Food Forum workshop on diet and disease
- July 26, 2023: FAO regional webinar on the cost of a healthy diet in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Will Masters on methods and the global context (slides, video in English, video in Spanish)
- July 23-25, 2023: AAEA annual meeting
- Ash Venkat: Supply chain resilience to extreme weather (selected paper)
- Elena Martinez: Are more sustainable, healthier foods more expensive? (selected paper)
- Rachel Gilbert: Trade policy, retail food prices and access to healthy diets (selected paper)
- Leah Costlow: Using least-cost diets to measure food access (track session on bridging U.S. & global work)
- Will Masters: Food prices and access to healthy diets (track session on commodity trade)
- July 23, 2023: ASN annual meeting
- Anna Herforth on Global Monitoring of the Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets (poster)
- June 19-30, 2023: ANH Academy events, online and in Malawi
- June 20th: online learning lab (open to all)
- June 16th: onsite learning lab (in Lilongwe)
- June 30th: paper presentation by Elena Martinez on food prices & sustainability
- May 18, 2023: 9th Intl. Conference on Agricultural Statistics session on access to healthy diets
- Nada Hamadeh, chair – opening remarks
- Anna Herforth on measuring access as the cost & affordability of healthy diets (abstract, slides)
- Kalyani Raghunathan on the cost & affordability of healthy diets in India (abstract, slides)
- Rachel Gilbert on role of trade and import barriers in retail diet costs (abstract, slides)
- Yan Bai on measuring diet costs with national data instead of prices reported to the ICP (slides)
- Discussants: Prince Adeyemi Adeniran (Nigeria), Bernice Serwah Ofosu-Baadu (Ghana)
- Apr 28, 2023: C-FARE webinar on food security measurement in the U.S. & worldwide (slides)
- Apr 26, 2023: National Academies Food & Nutrition Board workshop on healthy diets (slides)
- Apr 20, 2023: WFP-Asia webinar on prices, wages and affordability of healthy diets (slides, paper)
- Apr 6, 2023: SocialProtection.org webinar on targeting and adequacy of safety nets (slides, video)
- Mar 9, 2023: Tufts 16th Research & Data Symposium panel of student presentations (video)
- Feb 14, 2023: FAO technical network on poverty analysis (THINK-PA) meeting (slides)
- Feb 11, 2023: Donor platform meeting on new data for rural development
- Dec 14, 2022: TAFSSA workshop on affordability of healthy diets in South Asia (slides)
- Dec 10, 2022: IUNS-ICN presentation on development of the Healthy Diet Basket (slides)
- Dec 7, 2022: GAIN symposium on food affordability at ICN in Tokyo (slides)
- Dec 6, 2022: SocialProtection.org webinar on the global food crisis (report, video)
- Nov. 29, 2022: World Bank economics seminar on least-cost diets research (slides)
- Nov 16, 2022: Cell LabLinks event on inclusive diets within planetary boundaries (slides, video)
- Nov. 2, 2022: USDA ERS seminar on cost and affordability of healthy diets (slides)
- Nov. 1, 2022: Planetary Health Annual Meeting session on food systems in Boston (slides)
- Oct 27, 2022: USP 2030 panel on the food crisis and social protection (video, slides)
- Oct 21, 2022: FAO forum on science & innovation in Rome, panel on sustainable healthy diets
- Oct 19, 2022: BIFAD public meeting at the World Food Prize events (slides, video)
- Oct 17, 2022: World Bank development data group research seminar (slides)
- Oct 10, 2022: CFS 50 side event on cost and affordability of a healthy diet
- Sept 26, 2022: AAEA symposium on least-cost diets in the U.S. and worldwide
- July 31- Aug. 2, 2022: AAEA annual meeting
- AAEA Quality of Communications Award for publications in 2021
- AAEA selected papers and posters
- Aishwarya Venkat on food prices during extreme weather
- Leah Costlow on food availability for healthy diets
- Elena Martinez on food processing and diet costs
- Rachel Gilbert on cooking fuel and diet quality in Malawi
- July 15, 2022: IFPRI Policy Seminar online
- July 14, 2022: World Bank Live Event online, in English & French
- July 6, 2022: SOFI 2022 Launch Event at UN headquarters
- June 20, 2022: ANH Academy learning lab
- April 26, 2022: Webinar for Univ. of the Philippines-Los Banos
- April 25, 2022: FAO-Tufts webinar on the true cost of food (slides, video)
- Feb 28, 2022: HSPH Monday nutrition seminar (slides, video)
- Feb 8, 2022: keynote at AARES conference in Australia (slides; video)
- Jan 7, 2022: ASSA panel on food prices & access to healthy diets
- Dec 7, 2021: TIGOR talk on food price resilience to COVID shocks
- Nov 17, 2021: FERN2021: Africa Food Env. Rsch. Network (slides)
- Nov 2, 2021: USAID policy research consortium meeting (slides)
- Oct. 28, 2021: CAER-IFPRI meeting on food systems in China (slides)
- Sept 1, 2021: Launch of the Accountability Pact on food systems (slides)
- Aug 17-31, 2021: ICAE – W.A. Masters on seasonal availability in Malawi, S. Kaiyatsa on missing prices; K. Schneider on policy options
- Aug 2, 2021: AAEA – E. Martinez and J. Wallingford on price changes; K. Schneider & Y. Bai on diet costs; S. Kaiyatsa on missing prices; W.A. Masters on COVID resilience in food markets
- July 1, 2021:ICABR – W. Masters on policy panel and a papers session
- June 24, 2021: ANH Academy Week Learning Lab (event site; lab materials)
- June 15, 2021: W. Masters at Harvard NORC symposium on food systems (event site; video – starts at 38 m.)
- June 7-10, 2021: American Society for Nutrition annual meetings
- Yan Bai on least-cost diets for feeding infants (event info)
- Jess Wallingford on COVID and food prices (event info)
- Apr 16, 2021: A. Herforth webinar for UCC and IFIAD in Ireland (slides)
- Mar 23, 2021: D. Headey webinar for USAID nutrition GLEE (slides)
- Mar 1, 2021: A. Herforth interview with Jeremy Cherfas for Eat This (podcast)
- Feb 18, 2021: Tufts Now profile of the project (article)
- Feb 16, 2021: ANH Academy history of the project (research brief)
- Feb 8, 2021: W. Masters – webinar on food prices and diet costs for USAID’s global learning and evidence exchange (slides; twitter thread)
- Dec 14, 2020: W.A. Masters – webinar on affordability of diets as part of FAO’s contribution to global nutrition (slides; video; event details)
Video explanations
- ABCDE conference presentation of results (15 minutes, July 2025)
- World Bank Institute video about the project (2 min. + text & photos, Oct 2024)
- National Academies summary of results for a U.S. audience (20 min., Aug. 2023)
- Tufts students’ presentation of their work for a student-run conference (50 min., Mar. 2023)
eLearning course
- World Bank open learning course on Food Prices for Nutrition: Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet and other Indicators (self-paced, approximately 6 hours of video with quizzes)
Podcasts
- Oct 2025: Leading Voices in Food podcast on use of least cost diets to guide food policy and programs
- Apr 2025: Food Tank article and podcast on diet costs and food policy (Will Masters starts at 7:50)
- Jan 2025: The BBC‘s Food Chain podcast on dietary guidelines (Anna Herforth starts at 17:10)
- Nov 2024: Eat This interview with Rome workshop participants (+ World Bank workshop page)
- Apr 2023: EconoFact podcast on economics of malnutrition (+ Handbook chapter & preprint)
- July 2022: Inside Story podcast on the cost of living crisis
- May 2022: JHSPH podcast on wartime disruption and food prices
- Feb 2022: Yumlish podcast on food prices and cost of healthy eating
- Mar 2021: Eat This podcast on diet costs and affordability
News media
- July 2025: Tufts Now story about the project, titled Who in the World Can Afford Healthy Food?
- Aug 2024: Nigeria’s Blueprint news story about raising the national minimum wage
- Feb 2024: Pakistani news coverage of Food Systems Dashboard conference featuring FPN project work on CoAHD in Lead Pakistan, The Neutral, Trade Chronicle, The Nation, The News
- Jan 2024: Nigerian news coverage of CoHD bulletin in Vanguard, Agora Policy, BBC, ThisDay, The Guardian
- Jan 2024: Boston CBS news clip on whether healthier foods are more expensive
- Aug 2023: Boston25 news clip on U.S. food price inflation
- Aug 2023: Context video explainer on true price food shops
- Apr 2023: Marketplace radio on U.S. food price inflation (+more data)
- Nov 2022: KCBS radio on food price inflation (4 min.)
- Sept 2022: Marketplace radio on U.S. response to the world food crisis
- July 2022: CNA Singapore morning news coverage of SOFI 2022 (starts at 1:12 mark)
- Jun 2022: The Independent (UK) and Tufts Now article on Covid-19 impact on food prices
- Nov 2021: Le Monde (France) article on food prices [ungated pdf]
- July 2021: Blueprint (Nigeria) coverage of piece by Abebe Haile-Gabriel of FAO
- Feb 2021: Tufts Now article on food prices and diet costs
- Dec 2020: Nature Outlook article on diet costs & affordability
- Oct 2020: Hindustan Times (India) article on diet costs in India
- July 2020: Scaling Up Nutrition article on SOFI 2020
- June 2019: IFPRI event news on project findings
Blog posts
- By others, about FPN data and results
- Roser, M., P. Rosado and H. Ritchie (2023). Food Prices Data Explorer. Oxford, UK: Our World in Data.
- Fowowe, B. (2024), Six key insights from the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) reports. Agora Policy, Abuja (Nigeria), February 2024.
- Evans, D. (2025), Five takeaways from the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2025. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development.
- By project collaborators
- Bai, Y., A. Herforth, M. Rissanen, E. Purdie and W.A. Masters (2025), Beyond calories: Benchmarking access to healthy diets for people, planet, and policy. World Bank blog, 12 June 2025.
- Headey, D. and M. Ruel (2024), Rising food prices are putting children in harm’s way. VoxDev blog on development economics, 19 Feb 2024.
- Purdie E., Y. Bai, I. Song, and R. Costa (2023) How much does a healthy diet cost in your country? And is it affordable? Introducing a new Food Prices for Nutrition online course, 24 July 2023.
- Rosero Moncayo, J., N. Hamadeh, M. Rissanen, V. Conti and Y. Bai (2023), Over 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2021 – an increase of 134 million since the start of COVID-19. World Bank data blog, 17 July 2023.
- Bai, Y., E. Purdie, M. Nsabimana and M. Rissanen (2023), Diet affordability indicators incorporate the latest poverty and inequality data to monitor access to a healthy diet. World Bank data blog, 15 May 2023.
- Masters, W.A. and A. Herforth (2021). Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. The Conversation, 9 July 2021.
- Bai, Y. and W.A. Masters (2020), Retail food prices at purchasing power parity exchange rates. World Bank data blog, 26 May 2020.
- Herforth, A. (2020). Three Billion People Cannot Afford Healthy Diets. What Does This Mean for the Next Green Revolution? CSIS, Washington, 23 Sept. 2020.
- Masters, W.A., Y. Bai, K. Hirvonen and D. Headey (2019), Can the world’s poor afford a healthy diet? VoxDev column, 13 Dec. 2019.
Progress report from the project midpoint (Oct. 2023)
This interim progress report describes steps taken towards our goal of equipping governments and civil society around the world with accurate, updated metrics to monitor the cost and affordability of healthy diets.
Featured examples
Blog: The Conversation
Article: Le Monde
Podcast: Yumlish
Article: Tufts Now
Webinar: FAO-Tufts
Press: Hindustan Times
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