Health and Sustainable Agricultural Development: Perspectives on Growth and Constraints

ISBN-13: 9780367017828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 188 str.

Ruttan, Vernon W.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Concerns About Health and Sustainable Agricultural Development -- Health Policy and Health Systems -- A Perspective from the Commission on Health Research for Development -- Organizing for Health Rather than Sickness -- Disease in the Tropics -- Agriculture and Health -- Vaccines, Drugs and Tropical Disease -- Where Do We Stand on AIDS? -- Nutrition, Environment and Health -- Food Supply and Health -- Nutrition, Disease and Health -- Culture and Nutrition -- Water and Disease -- Health and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe -- Disease, Health and Development -- Historical Population Collapse -- Agricultural Development -- Health, Nutrition and Work -- Population and Development -- Perspectives and Reflections -- Institutional Design -- Implications and Priorities -- Agricultural and Health Research: Bridging the Island Empires

O autorze

Ruttan, Vernon W.