title: The SDGs Will Require Integrated Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health at the Community Level.
abstract: Child malnutrition is an urgent and complex issue and requires integrated approaches across agriculture, nutrition, and health. This issue has gained prominence at the global level. While national-level efforts are underway in many countries, there is little information on how to integrate at the community level. Here, we offer a community-based approach using cadres of agricultural and community health workers, drawing on qualitative work we have conducted in Tanzania. Agriculture is an important driver of nutritional and health outcomes, and improving child health will require practical solutions for integration that can add to the evidence base.
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA ccanavan@hsph.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Chelsey R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Canavan
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Graybill
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Wafaie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fawzi
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kinabo
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D002648:Child; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000379:methods*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009752:Nutritional Status; D013636:Tanzania
keywords: agriculture; child nutrition; community health care; malnutrition; nutrition