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Linking Agriculture and Health Progress of a
CGIAR Initiative
- Corinna Hawkes
- Food Consumption and Nutrition Division
- International Food Policy Research Institute
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (www.cgiar.org)
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Agriculture Health
Agriculture health are linked with significant
implications for the poverty, livelihoods, food
security, nutrition health of the worlds poor
- By producing food and generating income and other
benefits, agriculture is fundamental for good
health - By demanding labor, affecting the environment,
and producing goods, agriculture contributes to
poor health - Agricultural populations in poor health are less
able to work perpetuating a downward spiral into
poverty - Wider prevalence of malnutrition and disease
influences the market demand (and needs) for
agricultural outputs
Health Agriculture
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Why now?
- History of IFPRI/CGIAR work on agriculture and
nutrition - Increasing body of CGIAR work on agriculture and
health more broadly, but not well coordinated - Innovative solutions needed to prevent control
worlds major health problems affecting the poor
(undernutrition, HIV/AIDs, malaria, food borne
disease) - Action needed to understand and address emerging
health problems related to agriculture and health
(e.g. avian flu, obesity diet-related chronic
diseases) - New challenges affecting agriculture the nature
of its linkages with health (globalization,
urbanization)
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CGIAR Initiative on Agriculture and Health aims
to
- Improve coordination of existing health-related
research in the CGIAR maximize impact on
policy, in partnership with the health sector - Improve the health of the poor, reduce
malnutrition and food insecurity, and promote
pro-poor agricultural development, by increasing
synergies and collaboration between agriculture
health in research, policy and practice - FOCUS EQUALLY ON RESEARCH AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT
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Actions so far
- Center Directors Working Group established on
Agriculture and Health , to steer initiative
(2004) - Development of conceptual framework linking
agriculture and health, to set broad frame of
reference (2004/2005) - Workshop on agriculture and health (June 2005)
- Event held for all CG Centers at Annual General
Meeting, to communicate development of initiative
(Dec 2005) - IFPRI 2020 Focus Briefs on agriculture health
linkages, to compile communicate what is
already known (May 2006) - Web resource guide describing health-related
work in CG Centers, to allow anyone to learn
about utilize this research (2006)
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Roundtable workshop - Agriculture Health
Linkages Towards Improved Coordination IFPRI,
Washington DC, June 23-24
- 45 participants from 11 CG Centers (out of 15),
health sector (WHO, academic experts, NGOs),
donors - Reviewed existing work, discussed how to improve
CG coordination and strengthen partnerships with
the health sector, and challenges and
opportunities to move forward
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Noted real challenges
- Linkage between agriculture health are dynamic
and complex - Significant institutional challenges
- Insectoral research and policies difficult to
monitor and evaluate - Policymakers, practioners and donors need to be
convinced of relevance and added benefits of
working across sectors
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but real opportunities for CG to improve
synergies, in partnership with health sector
- Conduct scientific and policy research on
linkages - Develop partnerships with health sector to draw
on mutual strengths - Build dialogue to build common ground between
researchers policymakers sand practitioners - Communicate through publications
- Develop and adapt methodological tools to link
agriculture health in research, policy and
practice
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Focus on moving forward, addressing existing
emerging challenges, learning from the past, but
building new approaches
- EXAMPLE AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION
- Learn from past, that agriculture can contribute
to nutrition by - increasing availability of staples, access to
micronutrient rich food, income, womens
empowerment - Need also to address challenges of globalization
urbanization - Impact on dual burden of malnutrition
- Elevation of the role of agri-food markets
relative to agricultural production - Overall, to succeed must address agri-food and
health governance structures that create
institutional barriers to increasing the
synergies
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Next steps
- RESEARCH
- Continue ongoing research (HIV/AIDs
nutrition/obesity) - Identify critical scientific policy research
needed in concept note - COLLABORATION
- Identify big picture global public
health/nutrition experts to help guide the
initiative - Assist World Bank in agriculture-nutrition work
- COMMUNICATION
- Special issue of Food and Nutrition Bulletin
(June 2007), - Launch of 2020 Focus Briefs and Resource Guide
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For more information
- Brief on initiative available here
http//www.ifpri.org/pubs/misc/fcnaghealth.pdf - Website on workshop www.ifpri.org/events/seminars
/2005/20050623AgHealth.htm - Contact
- Marie Ruel (m.ruel_at_cgiar.org)
- Corinna Hawkes (c.hawkes_at_cgiar.org)
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