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  • Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Prof. @tuftsnutrition, on economics of agriculture, food & nutrition. Photo is deepsprings.edu. Teaching blog: sites.tufts.edu/foodecon. Just like this IRL too.

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Professor of Food Economics and Policy at Tufts University.
Personal website: https://sites.tufts.edu/willmasters.
Teaching: https://sites.tufts.edu/foodecon
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The Cost of a Healthy Diet

The Cost of a Healthy Diet

What does it cost to eat healthy? According to a landmark international report based on work led by William M…

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3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet

3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans and other commodities, but even before th…

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COVID, food jobs and prices

COVID, food jobs and prices

Massive job losses, disease risks and other disruptions continue to affect almost every American household. W…

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Retail food prices at purchasing power parity exchange rates: A first look at aggregate ICP 2017 ...

Retail food prices at purchasing power parity exchange rates: A first look at aggregate ICP 2017 ...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) released its 2017 purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates on …

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Coronavirus Shines Light On Inadequacies of United States Food Supply System

Coronavirus Shines Light On Inadequacies of United States Food Supply System

We've been hearing a lot about the United States food supply chain in the last few weeks--and none of it soun…

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Can the world's poor afford a healthy diet?

Can the world's poor afford a healthy diet?

New studies measure how many people cannot afford a healthy diet, establishing a useful benchmark for underst…

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Food economics: Teaching for the future of agriculture, nutrition, and health

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By Amelia B. Finaret, William Masters
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. REFERENCES , and . 2020. “Assessment and Perception of Student Farm Background in an Introductory Agriculture Course.” Natural Sciences Education 49(1): e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20013. , , and . 2018. Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1479114. , and . 2025.
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Food economics: Teaching for the future of agriculture, nutrition, and health

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By Amelia B. Finaret, William Masters
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. REFERENCES , and . 2020. “Assessment and Perception of Student Farm Background in an Introductory Agriculture Course.” Natural Sciences Education 49(1): e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20013. , , and . 2018. Research Universities in Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1479114. , and . 2025.
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Measuring Food Access as Affordability of Least‐Cost Healthy Diets Worldwide

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By William Masters, Anna Herforth, Yan Bai, Jessica K. Wallingford
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1 Defining and Measuring Global Food Security: From Energy Sufficiency to Foods for Health The concept and measurement of food security has evolved with changing policy priorities and availability of new data sources (Herforth 2015; Masters et al. 2022).
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