Title
Water Management and Environment
Description
This research seeks to identify and test interventions that safeguard the environment and associated delivery of ecosystem services vital to human well-being, while enhancing land and water resources management for agriculture.
Category
Research Program
Keywords
environment
irrigation
ecosystem
water
Contact
Priyanie Amerasinghe
E-mail
p.amerasinghe@cgiar.org
Title
Agriculture and Health Linkages: Towards Improved Co-ordination
Description
The roundtable workshop was held at IFPRI Washington DC on June 23-24, 2005. The objective of the workshop was to move towards improved co-ordination on health-related work within the CGIAR, in partnership with the health sector.
CGIAR center
IFPRI
Category
Outreach and Events
Keywords
nutrition
malaria
HIV/AIDS
malnutrition
aflatoxin
mycotoxin
zoonosis
zoonotic
Start date
June 23, 2005
End date
June 24, 2005
Title
Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health
Description
The 2020 Panel Discussion was held on May 15, 2006 at IFPRI, Washington DC. The objective was to discuss how linkages between agriculture and health work, where the opportunities for joint action lie, what the impediments are that need to be overcome, and how to strengthen synergies between agriculture and health and promote closer coordination.
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CGIAR center
IFPRI
Category
Outreach and Events
Keywords
nutrition
malaria
HIV/AIDS
zoonotic
zoonosis
malnutriton
micronutrient
mycotoxin
aflatoxin
Start date
May 15, 2006
Title
Arsenic Toxicity
Description
IRRI is supporting an ongoing project in Bangladesh enabling the study of uptake of arsenic present in soil and irrigation water. In the future, the program hopes to examine mitigating options and to develop rice varieties tolerant to arsenic contaminated irrigation water and soil, as well as with the ability to accumulate less arsenic in the grains.
CGIAR center
IRRI
Category
Research Program
Keywords
arsenic
soil
irrigation
water
rice
contamination
Countries
Bangladesh
Contact
Gerard Barry
E-mail
g.barry@cgiar.org
Title
Antimalaria Meeting (AHAM)
Description
The Antimalaria Meeting (AHAM) was held on the ICRAF Campus in Nairobi from the 20th to 22nd March 2006. It was organized by the Centre for Development of Enterprise (CDE, EU), and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) with support from other partners. The meeting aimed to encourage greater collaborative research and development in this field and to facilitate investment in the cultivation, processing, testing, manufacturing and distribution of safe and efficacious herbal antimalarials. There are a considerable number of private and public initiatives in Africa looking at new approaches to malaria, many involving the production and processing of Artemisia as well as other related products. Co-ordination of these efforts is of the utmost importance to get maximum effect.
CGIAR center
ICRAF
Category
Outreach and Events
Keywords
malaria
agroforestry
medicinal plant
Start date
March 20, 2006
End date
March 22, 2006
Contact
Brent Swallow
E-mail
b.swallow@cgiar.org
Title
Regional Initiative for Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS in Africa
Description
The Regional initiative for traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS in Africa was held at ICRAF on August 30-31, 2005. The initiative intended to mobilize and engage various partners at the regional level involved in collaborative or direct work with traditional medicine in order to develop multidisciplinary project proposals based upon agreed minimum standards of practice. Various concept papers from partner organizations were presented and discussed, and a 5-year regional program that is: innovative, comprehensive, complementary, and representative of a regional effort, on traditional medicine, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other killer diseases was drawn. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the voice and credibility of African TRM as the primary health system that the majority of Africans continue to access.
CGIAR center
ICRAF
Category
Initiatives and Networks
Keywords
medicinal plant
HIV/AIDS
traditional medicine
malaria
Countries
Africa
Start date
August 30, 2005
End date
August 31, 2005
Contact
Brent Swallow
E-mail
b.swallow@cgiar.org
Title
Medicinal Plants
Description
ICRAF has for 10 years been engaged in the conservation, domestication and propagation of a variety of medicinal trees, and contributed significantly to the scientific body of knowledge in species such as Prunus Africana (bark used for the treatment of prostrate disorders), Pausinystalia johimbe, Baillonella toxisperma, Annickia chlorantha and Warburgia ugandensis. The centre has for the past five years, worked to establish sustainable supply through conservation of wild population species and by assisting farmers to grow the trees, which also helps to increase their income. ICRAF's interest in medicinal plants can be seen by the fact that 2/3rds of all medicinal plants are woody, and many of the roots and bark of these woody species are used to treat various ailments. Poverty forces many people in the developing world to rely on remedies based on medicinal plants for relief of opportunistic diseases. Nutritious foods from various agroforestry products can boost the immune system and protect against opportunistic diseases. ICRAF in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, is also engaged in the encouraging commercial production of Artemisia annua in Africa, a Chinese herbal remedy, for treatment of malaria in combination therapies. In June 2005, ICRAF participated in a meeting in Arusha, Tanzania to identify and initiate some priority mechanisms for ensuring adequate availability of artemesin based combination therapy (ACT) and the possibilities of cultivation in Africa.
The outputs of this work may be provided to traditional healers or may input in the development of products for the international market.
CGIAR center
ICRAF
Category
Research Program
Keywords
medicinal plant
conservation
agroforestry
nutrition
diet
malaria
malnutrition
Countries
Africa
Contact
Brent Swallow
E-mail
b.swallow@cgiar.org
Title
Mitigating Human Health Risks
Description
Within CIP's Agriculture and Health Research Division, this program focuses on reducing the risks to human health caused by contaminants such as pesticides or contaminated irrigation water. As part of this program, the Tradeoff Analysis Model was developed to examine the agricultural impacts of pesticide use as compared with the human and environmental costs. Collaboration with the Crop Improvement Division on ways to reduce pesticide use is ongoing.
CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Research Program
Keywords
comtamination
pesticide
irrigation
water
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Agriculture, HIV/AIDS and Malaria
Description
We examine diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, in order to understand the impact they have on agricultural productivity, food security, and livelihoods. Vulnerable populations such as women, children, and orphans are strongly emphasized in this program's research objectives. IITA contributes to the National programs on the control of HIV/AIDS by implementing in collaboration with these programs Farmer Welfare Schools (FWS). The FWS is inspired from farmer life school which is itself based on the farmer field school. It consists of the training of farmers through the non-formal education, learning by doing and discovery-based learning principles. The content of the training is under three main headings namely: Reducing vulnerability to HIV, promoting human good health, and preventing human diseases. Research efforts are also being directed towards controlling mosquito transmitted diseases with eco-friendly solutions either based on natural plant extracts, entomopathogens or viruses. Resistance of vectors towards conventional insecticides is being studied in the same program.
CGIAR center
IITA
Category
Research Program
Keywords
HIV/AIDS
malaria
food security
insecticides
mosquito
Countries
Africa
End date
r.bandyopadhyay@cgiar.org
Contact
Ranajit Bandyopadhyay
Title
System-wide Initiative on Malaria in Agriculture (SIMA)
Description
ILRI contributed to the former CGIAR-wide initiative addressing malaria in agricultural communities. The System-wide Initiative on Malaria in Agriculture (SIMA) focused on the combined skills and abilities of the agricultural and health research communities, government agencies and community-based organizations. Water- and land-use and crop- and livestock-production practices were studied across a range of agro-ecosystems in Africa to identify farming activities that encourage and discourage the breeding of the mosquito vector or alter the transmission of the disease. Research-based guidelines and tools were developed and tested for use by poor communities and the non-governmental organizations and governments that serve them. ILRI maintains some research reports on the linkages between livestock and malaria.
CGIAR center
ILRI
Category
Initiatives and Networks
Keywords
malaria
water
livestock
vector control
Contact
Tom Randolph
E-mail
t.randolph@cgiar.org