Healthy and active lives for all require adequate access to food, care, employment, health services, and a healthy environment. None of these determinants of good health and nutrition is sufficient by itself; all of them are necessary.
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The food system begins and ends with health and nutrition.
The best approach to finding positive synergies between agriculture, nutrition, and health may depend on a country’s position in the dietary transition—from a diet low in both calories and micronutrients (Stage One) to a diet that provides adequat
Improving the livelihoods and well-being of the rural poor is an important aim of agricultural development, promoted through agricultural intensification and commercialization strategies.
As a unified set of global poverty reduction goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in principle provide an opportunity for overcoming sectoral divides and forging effective links between agriculture and health.
Health issues are increasingly affecting household decisionmaking, farm labor, and agricultural productivity in developing countries.
Strengthening the policy and programmatic links between agriculture and health and nutrition requires a means of seeing how their myriad links fit together.