Eating Healthy, 600,000 Albanians Can't Cope

A Food and Agriculture Organization Report FAO) in the United Nations estimates that for a healthy daily diet, a citizen in Albania has to pay more than $4.1 a day.

This figure is due to the last 2020 reported and the 2019 cost is on the rise, although it remains modest at 2 percent. Meanwhile, a citizen in Austria costs a healthy diet $2.98.

In the region Serbia and Croatia have higher costs for a healthy diet of over $4.2, while northern Macedonia has 3.42 USSD a day and Montenegro with 3.49 USD.

The percentage of people who find it impossible to afford a healthy diet in Albania accounts for 20.1 percent of the population, a figure that has increased in the 2019 ratio when this rate was 19.8 percent. The report estimates that there are approximately 600 thousand people who do not afford the cost of a healthy diet.

The report notes that there is an ongoing effort to reduce the cost of healthy diet to become affordable for all, but key roles play governments' policies. Thus, according to the report in low-income countries, for example, the cost of a healthy diet and current diets is seen as rising in margins when fiscal subsidies go from consumers to consumers for two reasons: increasing the demand for imports for food in low-income countries in the rest of the world increases prices, and second, there are limited subsidies in these countries to relocation to significant concentrations of food demand.

Governments around the world accommodate an average of $630 billion (referring 2013-2018) for the food and agriculture sector. Support of targeted agricultural products averages 446 million USD per year in net terms, jointly counting incentivities and price design for farmers.