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"Recognizing that “gender matters,” many development interventions have aimed to close the gender gap in access to resources, both human and physical, and to address the specific needs of female farmers. This paper critically reviews attempts to increase poor female farmers' access to, and...
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CONTENTS: 1.Overview / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 2. Agriculture, Food, and Health: Perspectives on a Long … Relationship / Tim Lang; 3. Agricultural Technology and Health / Michael Lipton, Saurabh Sinha, and Rachel Blackman; 4. Agriculture … and Nutrition Linkages: Old Lessons and New Paradigms / Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel; 5. Agriculture, Food Safety, and …
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"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 … world faces... The briefs in this series aim to communicate what is known about the linkages between agriculture and health …
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agriculture, presents a case study on the trade-offs between their health and economic impacts, and proposes responses... To … effect change, the agriculture and health sectors should work together more closely. The agricultural sector should develop …
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"Agriculture is fundamental to achieving nutrition goals: it produces the food, energy, and nutrients essential for …
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"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 … different ways of looking at the relationships between agriculture, food, and health. Agricultural connections to food and …
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"To improve the ability of farmers in developing countries to reduce the burden of foodborne illness, government agencies need to take the following steps: (1) Implement a farm-to-table approach to agricultural health by focusing efforts on the prevention of potential food safety and...
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"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...
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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
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