Cost of Diet Assessment Yorosso – Mali – December 2009

The CoD assessment is a collaboration between Save the Children US and Oxfam GB to try an understand the reasons for the high levels of malnutrition in Yorosso area despite it being one of the more fertile parts of the country. CoD is a methodology developed by Save the Children UK which calculates the lowest cost of a nutritiously adequate diet for a household of varying sizes. The cost of diet is calculated for the different wealth groups as defined during the Household Economy Analysis which took part prior to the CoD.