Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots
The agriculture, nutrition, and health nexus came to prominence in 2011. With 1 billion people continuing to suffer from food insecurity, and with vitamin and mineral deficiencies compromising the nutrition and health of billions of people, the international development community began to ask how mu...
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| author | Pandya-Lorch, Rajul Fritschel, Heidi Karelina, Zhenya Yosef, Sivan |
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| description | The agriculture, nutrition, and health nexus came to prominence in 2011. With 1 billion people continuing to suffer from food insecurity, and with vitamin and mineral deficiencies compromising the nutrition and health of billions of people, the international development community began to ask how much more could agriculture do to improve human wellbeing if it explicitly included nutrition and health goals? What kind of changes could maximize agriculture’s contribution to human health and nutrition, and how could improved human health and nutrition contribute to a more productive and sustainable agricultural system? |
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| spelling | CGSpace1541302025-11-06T06:32:06Z Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots Pandya-Lorch, Rajul Fritschel, Heidi Karelina, Zhenya Yosef, Sivan food prices climate change biofuels land degradation food security famine nutrition health food policies local government The agriculture, nutrition, and health nexus came to prominence in 2011. With 1 billion people continuing to suffer from food insecurity, and with vitamin and mineral deficiencies compromising the nutrition and health of billions of people, the international development community began to ask how much more could agriculture do to improve human wellbeing if it explicitly included nutrition and health goals? What kind of changes could maximize agriculture’s contribution to human health and nutrition, and how could improved human health and nutrition contribute to a more productive and sustainable agricultural system? 2012 2024-10-01T13:59:41Z 2024-10-01T13:59:41Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154130 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Pandya-Lorch, Rajul; Fritschel, Heidi; Karelina, Zhenya; Yosef, Sivan 2012. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots. In 2011 Global Food Policy Report. Chapter 6 pp. 55-61. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154130 |
| spellingShingle | food prices climate change biofuels land degradation food security famine nutrition health food policies local government Pandya-Lorch, Rajul Fritschel, Heidi Karelina, Zhenya Yosef, Sivan Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title_full | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title_short | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Connecting the Dots |
| title_sort | agriculture nutrition and health connecting the dots |
| topic | food prices climate change biofuels land degradation food security famine nutrition health food policies local government |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154130 |
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