significant role that improved smallholder livestock technologies can play in improving food security and nutrition as well as … productivity and, in particular, increases the milk production and income of resource poor smallholder mixed-crop and livestock … caloric intake. Using a recursive econometric model that takes into account the seasonal variability of consumption patterns …

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …

malnutrition. However, commercialization tends to have a negative effect particularly for short- and middle-term nutrition outcomes …

by, for example, washing or heating. The risk of aflatoxin contamination creates a negative nexus between agriculture … aflatoxin-contaminated food produced by the agriculture sector is consumed domestically, resulting in significant social costs …, we developed a conceptual framework for assessing the interrelated public health, trade, and agriculture impacts of …

nutrition. Accordingly, the term “nutrition-agriculture linkages” describes the set of relationships that shows the mutual … dependence of nutrition, health and agriculture. Changes in nutrition or health status are expected to affect agricultural … status. Most development professionals, however, are sectoral specialists. Some are trained in nutrition or agriculture, but …

We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally … representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low …

We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally … representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low …

Distributed as: Appendix 1. Background Paper for Agriculture and Lands. African Ministers Meeting, April 2009. Prepared …