Edited by Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch

The fundamental purpose of agriculture is not just to produce food and raw materials, but also to grow healthy, well-nourished people. One of the sector’s most important tasks then is to provide food of sufficient quantity and quality to feed and nourish the world’s population sustainably so that all people can lead healthy, productive lives. Achieving this goal will require closer collaboration across the sectors of agriculture, nutrition, and health, which have long operated in separate spheres with little recognition of how their actions affect each other. It is time for agriculture, nutrition, and health to join forces in pursuit of the common goal of improving human well-being.

In Reshaping Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, leading experts, practitioners, and policymakers explore the links among agriculture, nutrition, and health and identify ways to strengthen related policies and programs. The chapters in this book were originally commissioned as background papers or policy briefs for the conference “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health,” facilitated by the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Vision Initiative in New Delhi, India, in February 2011.

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• Table of Contents and Front Matter
• Chapter 1: Overview
  Shenggen Fan, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, and Heidi Fritschel
• Chapter 2: Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition: Toward Conceptualizing the Linkages
  John Hoddinott
• Chapter 3: The Food System and Its Interaction with Human Health and Nutrition
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen
• Chapter 4: The Nexus between Agriculture and Nutrition: Do Growth Patterns and Conditional Factors Matter?
  Shenggen Fan and Joanna Brzeska
• Chapter 5: Turning Economic Growth into Nutrition-Sensitive Growth
  Derek Headey
• Chapter 6: Growth Is Good, but Is Not Enough to Improve Nutrition
  Olivier Ecker, Clemens Breisinger, and Karl Pauw
• Chapter 7: The Role of Agricultural Growth in Reducing Poverty and Hunger: The Case of Tanzania
  Karl Pauw and James Thurlow
• Chapter 8: Feeding the Future’s Changing Diets: Implications for Agriculture Markets, Nutrition, and Policy
  Siwa Msangi and Mark W. Rosegrant
• Chapter 9: Value Chains for Nutrition
  Corinna Hawkes and Marie T. Ruel
• Chapter 10: Biofortification: Leveraging Agriculture to Reduce Hidden Hunger
  Howarth Bouis and Yassir Islam
• Chapter 11: Responding to Health Risks along the Value Chain
  Pippa Chenevix Trench, Clare Narrod, Devesh Roy, and Marites Tiongco
• Chapter 12: Agriculture-Associated Diseases: Adapting Agriculture to Improve Human Health
  John McDermott and Delia Grace
• Chapter 13: Do Health Investments Improve Agricultural Productivity? Lessons from Agricultural Household and Health Research
  Paul E. McNamara, John M. Ulimwengu, and Kenneth L. Leonard
• Chapter 14: Two-Way Links between Health and Farm Labor
  Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Catherine Chiang, Paul Thangata, and Kwaw S. Andam
• Chapter 15: Addressing the Links among Agriculture, Malaria, and Development in Africa
  Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Felix A. Asante, Jifar Tarekegn, and Kwaw S. Andam
• Chapter 16: Gender: A Key Dimension Linking Agricultural Programs to Improved Nutrition and Health
  Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Julia Behrman, Purnima Menon, and Agnes Quisumbing
• Chapter 17: Cross-Sectoral Coordination in the Public Sector: A Challenge to Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health
  Todd Benson
• Chapter 18: Accelerating National Policymaking across Sectors to Enhance Nutrition
  Robert K. N. Mwadime
• Chapter 19: Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
  Brenda Shenute Namugumya
• Chapter 20: Exploring the Agriculture–Nutrition Disconnect in India
  Stuart Gillespie and Suneetha Kadiyala
• Chapter 21: Bridging the Gap between the Agriculture and Health Sectors
  Joachim von Braun, Marie T. Ruel, and Stuart Gillespie
• Chapter 22: Governing the Dietary Transition: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health
  Robert Paarlberg
• Chapter 23: Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health: The Way Forward
  Shenggen Fan, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, and Heidi Fritschel
• Contributors
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