This study examines the effects of early-life iodine deficiency on health and educational outcomes following the war-induced disruption of Ethiopia’s salt iodization programme in the late 1990s. Using...

A banal take with serious consequences

The Mamdani Administration’s Pilot Faces Structural Dangers That Have Nothing To Do With Whether Public Groceries Are A Good Idea.

Recorded by Chad Finer Upstairs at Dan &Whit's Feb 15, 2026

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How affordable are the new dietary guidelines? Economists and nutrition experts weigh in.

Identifying low-cost options for a healthy diet is an essential step towards allowing all people to meet their nutritional needs. This study measures the frontiers of the lowest available cost and gre...

Overview On November, 20, 2025, Duke’s World Food Policy Center hosted an in-depth webinar on a major policy shift by the US Department of Agriculture:…

How do you prepare 100,000 meals at sea?

Governments use something called a ‘least cost diet’ to monitor food access, inform policy discussions, and target interventions to improve food security and nutrition. So, what is the least cost diet...

A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one.

A rise in produce prices could be a sign of higher costs to come as President Trump’s tariffs on imported food become more significant.

“Food Intelligence dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to...

The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

Veganism didn’t become less good for us or the planet, so what changed?

I had a painful experience at my local CVS this morning. I went in to get my flu shot and saw a pregnant woman standing at the pharmacy counter. She asked for last year’s formulation of the COVID-1…

The wholesale-price spike may eventually hike prices for shoppers, experts said.

About a quarter of the 3.3% price increase recorded by this month’s producer price index was driven by a spike in wholesale prices for veggies.

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This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.

This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.

The essential guide for understanding what you’re eating, and the forces that are driving you to eat it. Nutrition isn’t rocket science; it’s harder. There are new diet fads, bold...

YouTube video by Parke Wilde

Researchers at the Food Prices for Nutrition project at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts Universty are measuring the cost of the cheapest, locally available ingredients for...

House Vote #157 in 2025, in the United States Congress.

Grocery chains use little known property controls to prevent competition from moving in next door or into their store after they’re gone.

As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

Economics offers powerful tools to build skills and solve problems in the food system, but ANH Academy members often have little or no knowledge of how economics could help them reach their career goa...

Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage.