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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Overview

WEBIn a rapidly changing world, agriculture faces many challenges, both old (natural resource constraints, extreme weather conditions, and agricultural pests) and new (globalization, …

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Understanding the links between agriculture and health

WEBPolicymaking initiatives in agriculture and public health are often pursued in a parallel and unconnected fashion. Yet coherent, joint action in agriculture and health could have …

Category: Health Go Health

Interactions between health and farm-labor productivity

WEBCertain animal diseases also can infect humans. Labor migration (including agricultural labor migration) can contribute to high incidence of HIV infection. The effects of ill health …

Category: Health Go Health

Leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health

WEBAgricultural development has traditionally focused on raising productivity and maximizing production of cereals. In this regard, the world’s farmers and farming systems have …

Category: Health Go Health

Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health

WEBThe fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well-nourished people. One of the sector’s most important tasks …

Category: Food Go Health

The impact of PROGRESA on health

WEBThe program, PROGRESA, combines a traditional cash transfer program with financial incentives for families to invest in the human capital (health, education and nutrition). …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

State nutrition profile: Jharkhand

WEBAbstract. This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions. The findings are based …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

Health and wages: Evidence on men and women in urban Brazil

WEBSummary Description. Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women in urban Brazil. Height has a large and significant effect on …

Category: Health Go Health

Teff: nutrient composition and health benefits

WEBTeff (Eragrostis tef), has been cultivated and used for human consumption in Ethiopia for centuries. However, teff’s global use for human consumption has been restrained partly …

Category: Health Go Health

2.1.2. Conceptual Framework of the Causes of …

WEB11 energy malnutrition (PEM), nutritional anemia, vitamin A deficiency, and iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are the most serious nutritional problems (UNICEF 1990).

Category: Nutrition, Vitamin Go Health

HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Actions

WEBHIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Actions. This paper represents a collaboration between a research organization and an operational agency, both …

Category: Nutrition, Food Go Health

Synopsis: Teff: nutrient composition and health benefits

WEBConsequently, literature on the nutritional composition, processing quality, and health benefits of teff has grown considerably. Compared to grain of other more common …

Category: Nutrition Go Health