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{
    "link": "https://databank.worldbank.org/source/food-prices-for-nutrition",
    "additionalInfo": "This variable is sourced from the Food Prices for Nutrition DataHub (https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/foodpricesfornutrition) and its associated DataBank (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/food-prices-for-nutrition).\n\nThe dataset is based on the methodology developed in Herforth et al. (2022), which is a background paper for the UN agencies\u2019 annual report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 (https://www.fao.org/publications/sofi). It is based on data on prices for locally available food items from the World Bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) (https://icp.worldbank.org) matched to other data on food composition and dietary requirements.\n\nThe nutritional requirements used in this study are in line with the WHO's recommendations for the median woman of reproductive age. The authors note two key two reasons for this:\n\n(1) Requirements fall roughly at the median of the entire population distribution, in the sense that least-cost diets to meet energy and nutrient requirements for people in this reference group approximate the median level of least costs for all sex-age groups over the entire life cycle. This reference group is therefore a good representation of the population as a whole.\n\n(2) Women of reproductive age are typically a nutritionally vulnerable population group, as seen in their increased risk of dietary inadequacies (due to social practices and norms that often disadvantage them in terms of access to food), which have important consequences for themselves and their children. Previous studies have also based their analyses on this reference group.",
    "dataPublishedBy": "Food Prices for Nutrition data at the World Bank, based on Herforth, Venkat, Bai, Costlow, Holleman & Masters (2022)."
}