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Measuring the cost of dietary diversity: novel price indexes to monitor access to nutritious diets

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 7

Author Masters, W.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series number No. 20, November 2017

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This technical note describes a novel approach to measuring changes in the affordability of nutritious diets in low-income settings, using price indexes to monitor how trade policy or market infrastructure and other factors influence the cost of reaching a standard threshold of dietary diversity. We provide preliminary results for a new Cost of Diet Diversity (CoDD) price index in Ghana, contrasted with existing Cost of Nutrient Adequacy indexes as well as the standard Consumer Price Index concept for foods actually consumed, and world food price indexes for commodities that enter international trade.

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