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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 new (globalization, environmental degradation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996899
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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 … pollinators and soil biota... Agrobiodiversity used and conserved in a livelihood context can directly contribute to nutrition …, health, and income generation... Efforts to encourage farmers to grow a greater range of agrobiodiversity have had success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997008