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 …

"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 …

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 …

"Agriculture is fundamental to achieving nutrition goals: it produces the food, energy, and nutrients essential for …

"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 …