@article{Pauw:333410,
      recid = {333410},
      author = {Pauw, Karl and Ecker, Olivier and Thurlow, James and  Comstock, Andrew R.},
      title = {Costing Healthy Diets and Measuring Deprivation: New  Indicators and Modeling Approaches},
      address = {2022},
      pages = {34},
      year = {2022},
      note = {Presented at the 25th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis (Virtual Conference)},
      abstract = {One of the greatest global challenges today is ensuring  widespread availability and equitable access to affordable,  nutritious foods produced in an environmentally sustainable  manner. A rich literature exists around the definition of a  healthy diet and the drivers of dietary change. We  contribute to this literature by proposing a new  quantifiable diet deprivation measure estimated from  standard household consumption and expenditure surveys. The  Reference Diet Deprivation (ReDD) index measures the  incidence, breadth, and depth of diet deprivation across  multiple, essential food groups in a single indicator.  Although useful as a standalone measure, we show how ReDD  can be integrated into an economywide model to examine  changes in household diet quality under different  simulation scenarios. Using Nigeria as case study,  hypothetical agricultural productivity growth scenarios  reveal that dairy, pulses, fruit, and red meat value chains  have the greatest potential to reduce overall diet  deprivation in Nigeria per unit of GDP growth generated,  while productivity growth in more widely consumed crops  such as cereals and root crops do little to improve diet  quality. These findings have implications for the  prioritization of agricultural development initiatives  aimed at improving the quality of diets. More generally,  the integration of a diet quality indicator in an  economywide model allows for a deeper understanding of the  drivers of dietary change.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333410},
}