Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health / edited by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch.

Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012.

ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"An IPFR 2020 book" -- t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Agriculture, health, and nutrition: toward conceptualizing the linkages / John Hoddinott -- The food system and its interaction with human health and nutrition / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- The nexus between agriculture and nutrition: do growth patterns and conditional factors matter? / Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska -- Turning economic growth into nutrition-sensitive growth / Derek Headey -- Growth is good, but Is not enough to improve nutrition / Olivier Ecker, Clemens Breisinger, Karl Pauw -- The role of agricultural growth in reducing poverty and hunger: the case of Tanzania / Karl Pauw, James Thurlow -- Feeding the future's changing diets: implications for agriculture markets, nutrition, and policy / Siwa Msangi, Mark W. Rosegrant -- Value chains for nutrition / Corinna Hawkes, Marie T. Ruel -- Biofortification: leveraging agriculture to reduce hidden hunger / Howarth Bouis, Yassir Islam -- Responding to health risks along the value chain / Pippa Chenevix Trench ... [et al.] -- Agriculture-associated diseases: adapting agriculture to improve human health / John McDermott, Delia Grace -- Do health Investments improve agricultural productivity? Lessons from agricultural household and health research / Paul E. McNamara, John M. Ulimwengu, Kenneth L. Leonard --

Two-way links between health and farm labor / Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere ... [et al.] -- Addressing the links among agriculture, malaria, and development in Africa / Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere ... [et al.] -- Gender: a key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health / Ruth Meinzen-Dick ... [et al.] -- Cross-sectoral coordination in the public sector: a challenge to leveraging agriculture for Improving nutrition and health / Todd Benson -- Accelerating national policymaking across sectors to enhance nutrition / Robert K. N. Mwadime -- Advocacy to reduce malnutrition in Uganda: some lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa / Brenda Shenute Namugumya -- Exploring the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India / Stuart Gillespie, Suneetha Kadiyala -- Bridging the gap between the agriculture and health sectors / Joachim von Braun, Marie T. Ruel, Stuart Gillespie -- Governing the dietary transition: linking agriculture, nutrition, and health / Robert Paarlberg -- Leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health: the way forward / Shenggen Fan, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Heidi Fritschel.