Cost of Hunger Study: Nutrition & productivity in Afghanistan

Publication language
English
Pages
22pp
Date published
01 Feb 2013
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Food and nutrition, Nutrition
Countries
Afghanistan
Organisations
Samuel Hall
Link
http://samuelhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Assessing-the-Cost-of-Hunger-in…

The Cost of Hunger study captures how much the failure to address under-nutrition ‘costs’ in GDP losses to the Government of Afghanistan. Based on survey data, the paper draws the links between nutritional outcomes and productivity and proposes a model to quantify this relationship.