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- Agriculture and health interact through people, the natural environ-ment, and food and other outputs: poor agricultural producers and their families are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition and disease; agricultural systems interact with the environment, in turn affect-ing human health; and agriculture produces foods, fibers, and plants with medicinal properties essential for human life, health, and culture.
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Jun 18, 2011 · Summary: When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: the height and...
- Ancient Andean Genomes Show Distinct Adaptations to Farming and Altitude
Ancient populations in the Andes of Peru adapted to their...
- Ancient Andean Genomes Show Distinct Adaptations to Farming and Altitude
- Introduction
- How Agriculture Affects Planetary Health
- How Agriculture Affects Human Health
- Food Systems and Environmental/Health Impact
- How Does Environmental Change Affect Agriculture?
- Conclusion
Over time, farmers have shifted their cropping patterns, as well as the type of foods and quantity they produce. Over two billion people worldwide are not ingesting essential micronutrients, while 800 million or more are malnourished. Correspondingly, non-communicable diseases in many such countries are also on the rise. Agriculture has the potenti...
The cultivation of cereals and vegetables and the domestication of animals decreased the dependence on hunter-gatherers for food. This increased the production of food energy per hectare by up to a hundred times and increased human longevity. However, this entailed the loss of biodiversity, soil erosion by water and wind, and depletion of water res...
Higher farm incomes have improved multiple health outcomes in many areas. Yet women, who play a major role in farming, and all the more when menfolk are driven off by war or unemployment, are unable to fulfill their potential due to multiple factors. This reduces agricultural productivity. While more foods are available year-round, both because mor...
By classifying diets by their main components, the researchers found that lower-income countries tend to depend on starchy roots like cassava and yam, fruits, pulses and oil crops, fish and seafood, and vegetable oils, for their nutrition. Such countries also have significant disparities in income and food availability in many categories. These foo...
As the climate changes, water shortages, higher temperatures, poor crop pollination, and more frequent and/or intense weather events are more likely. Moreover, crops grown in a higher carbon dioxide atmosphere are less nutritious. Without adaptation, per capita food availability may decline by 3%. Drought and higher temperatures could reduce cereal...
The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (NDGAIN) Country Index classifies sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-east Asia as among the most threatened by climate change. However, these are the very countries that export fruit, vegetables and grains to the rest of the world, limiting their resilience in case of scarcity. They are also the countrie...
The shift to farming is widely understood to have impacted several aspects of human demography and biology, including mortality risk, population growth, adult body size, and physical markers of health.
Apr 9, 2015 · Agricultural intensification has been essential to feed the world’s growing population, but it has also brought its own risks for people’s health, including zoonotic diseases, water- and food-borne diseases, occupational hazards, and natural resource degradation and overuse.
Sep 24, 2020 · The transition to agriculture in the Neolithic was arguably one of the most drastic lifestyle changes in human history. Changes in diet, living conditions, and subsistence activities had an enormous impact on human health, though effects varied from region to region.
Jun 26, 2019 · Early agriculture’s toll on human health. It is difficult to envision a world without agriculture. However, as recently as 10 millennia ago, only in the Near East had people turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a means of supporting themselves.
Agriculture and health linkages: From nutrition to global public health. The role of agriculture in nutrition has long been rec-ognized. Agricultural production increases the food supply and improves nutrition through its effects on food access, income, prices, demand for labor, and women’s control over income [1, 2].
