News media, video, podcasts and outreach

Annual progress reporting

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)

Video explanations

• Most recent summary of global results, for a U.S. audience at the National Academies (20 min., Aug. 2023)
• Tufts students’ presentation of their work for a student-run conference (50 min., Mar. 2023)

Podcasts

• 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

• 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 and press release in Vanguard, Agoro 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.
• By project collaborators
  • 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.

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