Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms

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 p...

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Autores principales: Hawkes, Corinna, Ruel, Marie T.
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160506
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description 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. Hunger among the poor also increasingly manifests itself through excessive consumption of energy-rich but nutrient-poor foods. The result is a double burden of undernutrition (deficiencies of energy, micronutrients, or both) and “overnutrition” (poor diet quality leading to obesity and other diet-related chronic illnesses).
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spelling CGSpace1605062025-11-06T04:24:55Z Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms Hawkes, Corinna Ruel, Marie T. agriculture nutrition health agroforestry food safety sustainability 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. Hunger among the poor also increasingly manifests itself through excessive consumption of energy-rich but nutrient-poor foods. The result is a double burden of undernutrition (deficiencies of energy, micronutrients, or both) and “overnutrition” (poor diet quality leading to obesity and other diet-related chronic illnesses). 2006-05 2024-11-21T09:50:58Z 2024-11-21T09:50:58Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160506 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms. 2020 Vision Focus Brief. 13(4). International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160506
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms
title Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms
title_full Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms
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title_short Understanding the links between agriculture and health: Agriculture and nutrition linkages -- old lessons and new paradigms
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agroforestry
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sustainability
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