Annual progress reporting
Read about our progress 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.
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 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 & video)
- 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 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.
- 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.
Featured examples
Blog: The Conversation
Article: Le Monde
Podcast: Yumlish
Article: Tufts Now
Webinar: FAO-Tufts
Press: Hindustan Times
NEWS AND CONVERSATION
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