Prabhu Pingali, Katie Ricketts, and David Sahn present at the 2013 FAO/WHO International Conference on Nutrition Preparatory Technical Meeting in November 2013.
Subsistence systems are of special importance for African agricultureĀ - Productivity effects of health and nutrition greatest in populations with more serious health problems - health and well-being in rural areas lag far behind that in urban areas - productivity consequences of poor health are likely to be worse in areas where hard physical labor is the critical input. Ā Again, this characterizes rural Africa where there is virtually no formal wage labor, and most work is directly or indirectly related to agriculture and is reliant on strength and stamina. Ā - adverse events, such as weather and pests, jointly have an adverse affect on income and prices of food, as well as directly on health