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  • Online resource | Last updated: 03 Mar 2023

FAO Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD)

FAO computes eight indicators on cost and on affordability on healthy diets. These indicators rely on an integrated suite of data, computed based on variables including the retail prices of locally available foods and food-based dietary guidelines, country household income distribution patterns and the formulas required to establish purchasing power parities.