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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agrobiodiversity, nutrition, and health

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Biodiversity provides essential components of healthy environments and sustainable livelihoods. One key component of biodiversity is agrobiodiversity—that is, the cultivated plants and animals that form the raw material of agriculture, the wild foods and other products gathered by rural populations within traditional subsistence systems, and organisms such as pollinators and soil biota... Agrobiodiversity used and conserved in a livelihood context can directly contribute to nutrition, health, and income generation...
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agricultural technology and health

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Research, invention, and adoption of agrotechnology have played an important role in improving human nutrition and health. Agrotechnology has introduced more effective plant breeds (such as high-yielding varieties), enhanced land management techniques (such as terracing), and improved water management tools (such as irrigation). The adoption of these techniques has benefited nutrition, largely through boosting crop productivity, thereby providing employment and income to rural populations and increasing local and global food supplies...
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Opportunities for improving the synergies between agriculture and health

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"...At the moment, a lack of integration and coordination characterizes the relationship between the agriculture and health sectors. Traditionally, agricultural and health policies address specific goals within those sectors. Agricultural policies address conservation of the natural resource base, protection of farmers’ livelihoods, basic needs of the poor including food security, and the context for regulations on, among other things, food safety and the sound use of pesticides.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and health in the policymaking process

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Earlier briefs in this series make the case that there is added value for the agricultural and health sectors in working more closely together to address problems of human well-being that fall at the intersection of the two sectors. Yet the divisions between the two sectors are wide and difficult to bridge. Building the space and providing sufficient incentives and resources for collaborative activities between them will require changes in government policy—itself not a straightforward endeavor.
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WTO Kills Farmers: Beyond the Hong Kong Ministerial

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2006
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, China, Congo, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
agricultural land management
agriculture
farmers
farmers associations
farming systems
land economics
The World Trade Organization (WTO) hailed the recent Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting last December 2005 as a positive movement towards the conclusion of the Doha Development Round. The round was supposedly geared towards ensuring that trade contributes to the development objectives of least developed and developing countries.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
Agriculture is fundamental to achieving nutrition goals: it produces the food, energy, and nutrients essential for human health and well-being. Gains in food production have played a key role in feeding growing and malnourished populations. Yet they have not translated into a hunger-free world nor prevented the development of further nutritional challenges. Micronutrient deficiencies (for example, of vitamin A, iron, iodine, and zinc) are now recognized as being even more limiting for human growth, development, health, and productivity than energy deficits.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Overview

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Good health and productive agriculture are both essential in the fight against poverty. In a rapidly changing world, agriculture faces many challenges, both old (natural resource constraints, extreme weather conditions, and agricultural pests) and new (globalization, environmental degradation, problems of maintaining production in conflict situations). At the same time, new global health threats emerge, such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and avian influenza, while old ones persist.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture, food, and health: perspectives on a long relationship

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
Agriculture produces food fundamental for human health. It therefore seems obvious that agriculture, food, and health are related! Agriculture affects whether people have enough food to eat, whether it is of sufficient nutritional value, and whether it is safe, all of which affect human health. But it is not so simple: history has taught that there are different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and health are mediated by the natural environment, human culture, and technological change.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Occupational health hazards of agriculture

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the majority of people affected by HIV and AIDS globally, and it is being progressively undermined by the disease. In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is affecting the rural landscape in ways that demand a rethinking of development policy and practice, and parts of South Asia may soon face a similar situation.... There is clearly tremendous scope for agricultural policy to become more HIV-responsive, both to further AIDS-related objectives and to help achieve agricultural objectives. Yet there are no magic bullets.
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Fish and health

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2006
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
agriculture
agroforestry systems
food security
"Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the majority of people affected by HIV and AIDS globally, and it is being progressively undermined by the disease. In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is affecting the rural landscape in ways that demand a rethinking of development policy and practice, and parts of South Asia may soon face a similar situation.... There is clearly tremendous scope for agricultural policy to become more HIV-responsive, both to further AIDS-related objectives and to help achieve agricultural objectives. Yet there are no magic bullets.