Timeline: Insight to Impact

(Phase 1) Building a Vision

2010 – 2015

Built consensus around agriculture–nutrition linkages through collaborative processes to shape common understanding and practical application.

2010 — Co-founded Ag2Nut, a network to facilitate global discussions on agriculture-nutrition linkages.

2013 — Synthesized the Key Recommendations on Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems, adopted by FAO.

2015 — Published a vision for monitoring the Cost of a Healthy Diet and a set of diet indicators.

(Phase 2) Developing the Methods and Metrics

2015 – 2025

Launched two decade-long projects to develop scalable methods and metrics for monitoring diet quality and access to healthy diets.

2015 — Initiated the Food Prices for Nutrition project and developed the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD).

2016 — Led the Global Diet Quality Project to provide a valid, feasible way to measure and monitor global diets.

2019 — Contributed to the global Food Systems Dashboard and the Food Systems Countdown Initiative.

(Phase 3) Global Mainstreaming

2025 – 2030

Scaling up the implementation of new methods and metrics, helping embed them in policymaking, and elevating edible biodiversity to address gaps in food access and diets.

2026 — Working with FAO to build national capacity to monitor the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet.

2026 — Working with WHO to support the use of diet data for design and impact of healthy diet policies.

2025 — Continuing the work of the Global Diet Quality Project to build national capacity for implementing the DQQ.

2026 — Building a World Food Map of edible biodiversity to support health and wealth with local foods that are culturally relevant, climate resilient, and nutritionally rich

Situation in 2010

"Nutrition-sensitive agriculture" coined in the SUN movement

Agriculture &
Food Systems

Food Access

Diet Quality

Nutrition

Was measured as
dietary energy or
hunger only

No indicators of
dietary intake
measured

Global monitoring of Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet

Global monitoring of Dietary Diversity (SDG 2.2.4) and other indicators using the DQQ