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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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Apr 5, 2022 · One obvious impact on human health is the deterioration in food quality, with the accompanying increase in nutritional diseases. Increased technological advancement allows cold chains to...
Advances in biotechnology, genetic modified organisms (GMOs), new agrochemicals, and an evolving work force will continue to have an impact on the human health in agriculture, and need to be addressed by future research.
Agriculture and AKST can affect a range of health issues including undernutrition, chronic diseases, infectious diseases, food safety, and environmental and occupational health. Ill heath in the farming community can in turn reduce agricultural productivity and the ability to develop and deploy appropriate AKST.
Jun 11, 2019 · Indeed, our synthesis of the literature suggests that, since 1940, agricultural drivers were associated with >25% of all — and >50% of zoonotic — infectious diseases that emerged in humans,...
- Jason R. Rohr, Jason R. Rohr, Christopher B. Barrett, David J. Civitello, Meggan E. Craft, Bryan Del...
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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.
Apr 15, 2016 · This chapter provides an overview of current scholarship on the effects of agriculture on environmental and human health, focusing primarily on contemporary industrialized agricultural practices.
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].
