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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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"In recent years bioenergy... has drawn attention as a sustainable energy source that may help cope with rising energy prices, address environmental concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and offer new income and employment to farmers and rural communities around the world. For many countries...
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of limited impact; with monitoring and evaluation, the knowledge acquired from the pilot experience can be used to scale … experience of scaling up successful interventions in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition under five broad headings: (1 … Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger by Kevin Cleaver •Moving Local- and Community-Driven Development from Boutique to Large …
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In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms. International prices of cereals also...
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International agricultural research is expanding beyond the development of annual crop technologies for individual farms to the development of longer-tern natural resource management techniques for entire landscapes. But technologies of practices with a long lag time between investment and...
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across multiple dimensions, including people's livelihoods, the sustainability of the resource base, and the effectiveness of …
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