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How can we make healthy food more affordable for the lowest-income households?

Men load sacks of rice among other food aid in a truck, to be distributed for those affected by procedures taken to curb the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Abuja, Nigeria April 17, 2020. Picture taken April 17, 2020.

Food prices go up and down, but many healthy foods like fruits and vegetables, nuts, dairy products and fish are consistently more expensive Image: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Anna Herforth
Co-Director of the Food Prices for Nutrition project, Tufts University
William A. Masters
Professor of Food Economics and Policy, Tufts University
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An estimated 3 billion people around the world have incomes that are too low to buy even the lowest-cost healthy foods available where they live. Image: Food Prices for Nutrition project, Tufts University
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