Food Prices for Nutrition Launch: Responding to the current food crisis and transforming food systems so they can provide affordable healthy diets for all requires reliable and responsive data that can inform policies and interventions. The Food Prices for Nutrition project, a new initiative led by Tufts University, IFPRI, and the World Bank, in collaboration with FAO, meets this need by providing new food security indicators on the cost and affordability of a healthy diet.
In back-to-back policy discussions on July 14 and July 15 at the World Bank and then at IFPRI, policymakers and global food security experts discussed the implications of the new Food Prices for Nutrition data, as well as how the indicators can be used to guide food system and agricultural interventions and reduce food insecurity. Read More >>