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Understanding the links between agriculture and health:
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996502
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Overview: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996899
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The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism
Wiber, Melanie G. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
implications of such voracious property for biodiversity. " Author's Abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113245
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Collective action for small-scale producers of agricultural biodiversity products:
Kruijssen, Froukje; Keizer, Menno; Giuliani, Alessandra - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
development of poor communities that manage agricultural biodiversity." authors' abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113248
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Are there customary rights to plants?: an inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with special attention to gender
Howard, Patricia L.; Nabanoga, Gorettie - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
are important to maintaining biodiversity and to human welfare; failing to recognize them presents dangers. The case study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113257
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Agrobiodiversity, nutrition, and health: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Johns, Timothy; Smith, Ifeyironwa Francisca; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
biodiversity is agrobiodiversity—that is, the cultivated plants and animals that form the raw material of agriculture, the wild …"Biodiversity provides essential components of healthy environments and sustainable livelihoods. One key component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997008
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Trading millet and sorghum genetic resources women vendors in the village fairs of San and Souentza, Mali:
Smale, Melinda; Diakité, Lamissa; Dembélé, Brahima; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"In Mali, liberalization of seed markets for sorghum and millet, the staple food crops, has not advanced at the same rate or with the same measurable success as liberalization of grain markets. Most seed of these crops is uncertified and continues to be supplied to farmers by farmers, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038000
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Publish or patent?: Knowledge dissemination in agricultural biotechnology
Michiels, An; Koo, Bonwoo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Plant transformation research has achieved outstanding progress in the development of transgenic crops over the past decades, and the research results have been spread through journal publications and patents. With the recent emergence of stronger intellectual property rights, investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038041
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Farmer preferences for Milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: A latent class approach
Birol, Ekin; Villalba, Eric Rayn; Smale, Melinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
"Maize, the second most globally important staple crop after wheat, originated in Mexico, where it is typically grown as part of a set of associated crops and practices called the milpa system. This ancient mode of production is practiced today in ways that vary by cultural context and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038071
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Seed value chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A state-based system in transition
Diakité, Lamissa; Sidibé, Amadou; Smale, Melinda; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper reviews the structure and performance of the sorghum and millet seed sector in Mali. The Sahel is the origin of pearl millet and sorghum, seed selection and management of these crops is embedded in local cultures, and most producers of these crops are subsistence oriented. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038133