Projects

The CIP recommendations for investments in food fortification are based on projections of industrial feasibility and commercial potential as well as access and affordability to low-income consumers. The analysis projects that fortification can avert 200,000 premature deaths, and unlock more than $4.5 billion in national economic.

The bulk of the proposed fortification costs, about $700 million over 10 years, would be borne by the domestic market. The benefits can be leveraged through international pump-priming investments of approximately $80 million.

In order to draw conditional conclusions about costs and benefits, the CIPs apply an analytical process that quantifies the inputs and outputs to fortification to arrive at 10-year benefit cost ratios and internal rate of return.