Health and Sustainable Agricultural Development - 9780367017828

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. > 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 -- Foods