Poor diets are the number one risk factor in the global burden of disease: they account for one in five deaths globally.........
So what is it about the global food system and the process of economic development that delivers the wrong price of healthy and unhealthy foods in so many settings?
Differences in the costs of healthy and unhealthy calories are therefore partly determined by the nature of the foods themselves, and partly by local productivity levels and whether the food can be cheaply traded. These complexities mean that different strategies are needed for different kinds of foods in different countries.Clearly the main food system problem for consumers in poor countries is the high price of healthy foods.
This same bias towards staple foods is also true for developing country governments, who all too often remain fixated on the supply of their most basic staples. That needs to change.
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