Stephen Vosti

About

Stephen Vosti is an adjunct Professor Emeritus in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of California, Davis. His fields of interest include Tropical Deforestation, Economic Development, Poverty-Environment Links, Bioeconomic Models, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Economics of Early Childhood Undernutrition, and Cost-effective Programs for Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies in Developing Countries. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, obtained in 1984, a Master of Science from the same university in 1981, and a Bachelor of Arts from Whitman College in 1977. His recent courses include The Economics of Small Farms and Farming Systems and The Economics of Human Nutrition. Vosti's work focuses on applying economic principles to address issues related to natural resource management, development, and nutrition, contributing to research and education in these areas at UC Davis.

Research topics

• Environmental health
• Medicine
• Business
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Economics
• Ecology
• Statistics
• Demography
• Economic growth

Selected publications

• Mobilising evidence, data, and resources to achieve global maternal and child undernutrition targets and the Sustainable Development Goals: an agenda for action

  The Lancet · 2021 · 230 citations

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• Update on Analytical Methods and Research Gaps in the Use of Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey Data to Inform the Design of Food-Fortification Programs

  Advances in Nutrition · 2022 · 20 citations

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• Within-Person Variation in Nutrient Intakes across Populations and Settings: Implications for the Use of External Estimates in Modeling Usual Nutrient Intake Distributions

  Advances in Nutrition · 2020 · 20 citations

  Determining the proportion of a population at risk of inadequate or excessive nutrient intake is a crucial step in planning and managing nutrition intervention programs. Multiple days of 24-h dietary intake data per subject allow for adjustment of modeled usual nutrient intake distributions for the proportion of total variance in intake attributable to within-individual variation (WIV:total). When only single-day dietary data are available, an external adjustment factor can be used; however, WIV…

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• The potential contributions of bouillon fortification to meeting micronutrient requirements among women and preschool children in Senegal: A modeling study using household consumption and expenditure survey data

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024-07-01 · 13 citations

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  To reduce micronutrient deficiencies, Senegal mandates the fortification of refined oil with vitamin A and wheat flour with iron and folic acid. Expanding Senegal's large-scale food fortification programs to include fortified bouillon could help fill the remaining gaps in dietary micronutrient requirements. Using 7-day household food consumption data collected between 2018 and 2019, we assessed the potential contributions of bouillon fortified with vitamin A (40-250 μg/g bouillon), folic acid (2…

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• Bouillon fortification as a strategy to address inequities in micronutrient adequacy of diets in Nigeria

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024-09-10 · 8 citations

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  Bouillon is a widely consumed condiment in many West African countries, including Nigeria. Although Nigeria has mandatory fortification standards for multiple food vehicles, bouillon fortification could help address remaining gaps in micronutrient intake. Using household food consumption data, we used the nutrient density method to model the additional contribution of bouillon fortified with vitamin A (40-250 µg/g bouillon), folic acid (20-120 µg/g), vitamin B12 (0.2-2 µg/g), iron (0.6-5 mg/g),…

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Frequent coauthors

• Kathryn G. Dewey

  University of California, Davis

  94 shared

• Per Ashorn

  92 shared

• Anna Lartey

  University of Ghana

  62 shared

• Ulla Ashorn

  60 shared

• Kenneth Maleta

  56 shared

• Reina Engle‐Stone

  University of California, Davis

  55 shared

• Mamane Zeilani

  52 shared

• Katherine P. Adams

  48 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Whitman College

  1977

• M.S.

  University of Pennsylvania

  1981

• Ph.D.

  University of Pennsylvania

  1984

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