In emerging economies, fresh fruit and vegetables are increasingly expensive while many processed foods are getting cheaper. As obesity levels rise, a new ODI report examines how some governments are trying to reverse this trend.
Research reports and studies | May 2015 | Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats with Euan Han, Satoru Shimokawa, Joel Alberto Vargas Hernández and Rafael Moreira Claro.
This report investigates the prices of different foods in some of the rapidly-growing emerging economies, where incomes have risen notably in the last 20 years. We ask what effect this has had on growing rates of overweight and obese people and whether this trend could…
