Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages

Agriculture and health and nutrition have long occupied separate realms. Analyses of agricultural production seldom recognize that health status affects productivity, nor do they recognize that agricultural goods and processes have health consequences. At the policy and programmatic levels, agricult...

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Main Author: Hoddinott, John F.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153997
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description Agriculture and health and nutrition have long occupied separate realms. Analyses of agricultural production seldom recognize that health status affects productivity, nor do they recognize that agricultural goods and processes have health consequences. At the policy and programmatic levels, agriculture and health operate in separate silos, seldom considering the consequences of their actions on sectors outside their own. This separation is strange given that agriculture and health and nutrition are tightly wedded. Agriculture is the primary source of calories and essential nutrients and is a major source of income for the world’s poor, while agriculture-related health losses are massive.
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spelling CGSpace1539972025-11-06T04:14:43Z Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages Hoddinott, John F. food supply nutrition policies agriculture public health nutrition health Agriculture and health and nutrition have long occupied separate realms. Analyses of agricultural production seldom recognize that health status affects productivity, nor do they recognize that agricultural goods and processes have health consequences. At the policy and programmatic levels, agriculture and health operate in separate silos, seldom considering the consequences of their actions on sectors outside their own. This separation is strange given that agriculture and health and nutrition are tightly wedded. Agriculture is the primary source of calories and essential nutrients and is a major source of income for the world’s poor, while agriculture-related health losses are massive. 2012 2024-10-01T13:58:51Z 2024-10-01T13:58:51Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153997 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296732 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hoddinott, John F. 2012. Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages. In Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health. Ed. Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch. Chapter 2. Pp. 13-20. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153997
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Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
title Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
title_full Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
title_fullStr Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
title_full_unstemmed Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
title_short Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
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nutrition policies
agriculture
public health
nutrition
health
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