Issue paper
Measuring the cost of dietary diversity: Novel price indexes to monitor access to nutritious diets. Trade Policy Technical Notes No. 20.
The technical note describes a novel approach to measure 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.
Preliminary results for a new Cost of Diet Diversity price index in Ghana are provided.
Date
2017
Publisher
FAO
Region
Global
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