Advisory
Strategy Grounded in Evidence
Connecting food environments, fiscal tools, and nutrition policy into one credible investment roadmap.
Overview
Urban food environments were shifting faster than national dietary guidelines could respond. The task was to connect retail scanner trends, street-food vendor ethnography, and fiscal instruments into one credible roadmap.
Sustainable diets succeed when evidence, fiscal design, and everyday food environments move in the same direction.
Advanced Economic Research
World Bank engagement (2025)
Challenge · Solution · Result
- Challenge: Ghana's rapid dietary transition toward processed foods raised long-term health and sustainability concerns.
- Solution: World Bank consultancy analyzing food environments, dietary patterns, and structural barriers to sustainable diets.
- Result: Advisory that connects health, food systems, and household welfare into actionable policy and program design.
A Transition Under Pressure
Health, markets, and the policy clock
Ghana's rapid dietary transition toward processed foods raised long-term health and sustainability concerns. Urban food environments were shifting faster than national dietary guidelines could respond.
The engagement connected retail scanner trends, street-food vendor ethnography, and fiscal instruments into one credible roadmap for policymakers and investment partners.
Evidence for Investment Choices
Mixed methods, political feasibility
As a World Bank consultancy, we analyzed food environments, dietary patterns, and structural barriers to sustainable diets using structured vendor surveys, 24-hour recall modules, and fiscal incidence modeling of sweetened beverage and import tariff scenarios.
Scenario planning workshops with finance and health ministries stress-tested political feasibility before recommendations were locked.
A Roadmap That Travels
From analysis to annual portfolio reviews
The policy roadmap was adopted by Ghanaian policymakers and World Bank nutrition investment frameworks.
A sequenced investment menu linked school feeding reforms, informal sector licensing pilots, and cold-chain gaps, with monitoring indicators agreed for annual portfolio reviews.
Partners
- World Bank
- Government of Ghana - health and finance inter-agency team
