3 papers
econ.GN2025
Impacts of large-scale food fortification on the cost of nutrient-adequate diets: a modeling study in 89 countries
Leah Costlow, Yan Bai, Katherine P. Adams +8
Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a widely accepted intervention to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies, yet policy implementation is often incomplete. Even assuming high i…
econ.GN2025
Healthy diets are affordable but often displaced by other foods in Indonesia
Leah Costlow, Rachel Gilbert, William A. Masters +6
New methods for modeling least-cost diets that meet nutritional requirements for health have emerged as important tools for informing nutrition policy and programming around the wo…
econ.GN2025
Environmental impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
Yan Bai, Elena M. Martinez, Mizuki Yamanaka +3
Using real-world food price and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for locally available food items in 171 countries, we measure how healthy diets could be obtained with the lowes…