The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has introduced a new quarterly bulletin series to monitor the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD) in Ghana, using food price data collected across 190 markets in the 16 regions.
The initiative, led by MoFA's Statistics, Research and Information Directorate, is aimed at strengthening food security by tracking the affordability of diets that meet Ghana's National Food-Based Dietary Guidelines, which were introduced in 2023.
The CoHD indicator identifies the minimum cost of meeting dietary requirements using locally available foods.
According to a press release issued by MoFA's Public Relations Unit, findings from the bulletin show that vegetables and animal-source foods are consistently the least affordable food groups for most Ghanaians.
