Health and Sustainable Agricultural Development - 9780367167691

CRC Press

This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their agricultural systems. > This book explores the role of health in sustainable agricultural development into the early decades of the twenty-first century. It focuses on emerging agricultural research priorities in developed and developing economies in response to the demands placed on their agricultural systems. > Part One: Introduction 1. Concerns About Health and Sustainable Agricultural Development Part Two: Health Policy and Health Systems 2. A Perspective from the Commission on Health Research for Development 3. Organizing for Health Rather than Sickness Part Three: Disease in the Tropics 4. Agriculture and Health 5. Vaccines, Drugs, and Tropical Disease 6. Where Do We Stand on AIDS? Part Four: Nutrition, Enviros