Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Food Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102913

William A. Masters

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Abstract

This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled “Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries” (first published October 2020) and “Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition” (first published September 2021) advanced the use of least-cost benchmark diets to monitor and improve food security. Those papers contributed to the worldwide use of least-cost diets as a new diagnostic indicator of food access, helping to distinguish among causes of poor diet quality related to high prices, low incomes, or displacement by other food options, thereby guiding intervention toward universal access to healthy diets.

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跟踪最低成本健康饮食的可负担性有助于指导粮食安全和改善营养的干预措施

本政策评论介绍了题为“零售价格营养膳食的成本和可负担性：来自177个国家的证据”（首次发表于2020年10月）和“零售消费者价格数据揭示了监测粮食系统营养的差距和机会”（首次发表于2021年9月）的《粮食政策》文章如何推动使用最低成本基准饮食来监测和改善粮食安全。这些论文有助于在世界范围内使用最低成本饮食作为粮食获取的新诊断指标，有助于区分与高价格、低收入或被其他粮食选择取代有关的饮食质量差的原因，从而指导为普遍获得健康饮食而进行的干预。

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来源期刊

Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.