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Agriculture and nutrition linkages old lessons and new paradigms: understanding the links between agriculture and health

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  • Hawkes, Corinna
  • Ruel, Marie T.

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"Agriculture is fundamental to achieving nutrition goals: it produces the food, energy, and nutrients essential for human health and well-being. Gains in food production have played a key role in feeding growing and malnourished populations. Yet they have not translated into a hunger-free world nor prevented the development of further nutritional challenges. Micronutrient deficiencies (for example, of vitamin A, iron, iodine, and zinc) are now recognized as being even more limiting for human growth, development, health, and productivity than energy deficits. Hunger among the poor also increasingly manifests itself through excessive consumption of energy-rich but nutrient-poor foods. The result is a double burden of undernutrition (deficiencies of energy, micronutrients, or both) and “overnutrition” (poor diet quality leading to obesity and other diet-related chronic illnesses)." From text

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  • Hawkes, Corinna & Ruel, Marie T., 2006. "Agriculture and nutrition linkages old lessons and new paradigms: understanding the links between agriculture and health," 2020 vision briefs 13(4), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:2020br:13(4)
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    1. Nagoli, J. & Phiri, E.M. & Kambewa, E. & Jamu, D., 2009. "Adapting integrated agriculture aquaculture for HIV and AIDS-affected households: the case of Malawi," Monographs, The WorldFish Center, number 38593, April.
    2. Andersen-Pinstrup, Per, 2013. "Contemporary food policy challenges and opportunities," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 58(4), October.

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