| Healthier farmers, better products - Editorial | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| There is a number of major health challenges facing the world today. Some of the bigger issues are linked to the current state of agriculture. For example, HIV/AIDS, malaria and malnutrition are commo... |    |
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| Bringing agriculture and health workers together | 6-8
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| Linda Jo Stern, Scott A Killough, Ross Mary Borja, Nina Hernidiah, Paul Joicey, Peter R Berti, Stephen Sherwood |
| World Neighbors' traditional focus and expertise are rooted in agricultural development. Recognising that great synergies exist between agriculture and health and looking for ways to improve our work,... | |
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| Fighting AIDS with traditional foods and organic practices | 9-11
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| Sarah Kaschula, Kathy Arbuckle |
| Population pressures and transforming land practices are not the only threats to productivity. The Msunduzi area has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. HIV/AIDS poses a threat to ag... | |
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| The revival of an anciente crop | 12-13
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| Joshua Spetter, Lisa Thompson |
| Five centuries ago, amaranth was an important crop used in many ways in daily life in Mexico. Today, in contrast, much of the rural population survives on a very limited diet, based primarily on corn.... | |
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| Seeking sustainable health improvements using orange-fleshed sweet potato | 14-15
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| Jan W Low, Mary Arimond, Nadia Osman, Benedito Cunguara, Filipe Zano, David Tschirley |
| Vitamin A is one of the critical micronutrients needed by all human beings. Vitamin A deficiency limits the ability of the body to defend itself against disease in about 40 percent of children under f... | |
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| Child nutrition in Mexico under conventional and organic agriculture | 16-17
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| Adriana Ríos González, Hector Javier Sanchez Perez, Jon Hellin, Dagoberto Flores Valazquez |
| The La Frailesca region is part of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Farmers in La Frailesca began growing coffee at the end of the nineteenth century. Over the following decades, the production ... | |
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| Beating malnutrition with local crops and local food systems | 18-19
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| Hira Jhamtani |
| Drawing on two examples from Central Java, Indonesia, this article shows the importance of looking at the local agricultural systems and at the local food cultures when trying to achieve food security... | |
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| Village poultry, food security and HIV/AIDS mitigation | 20-21
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| Robyn Alders, Brigitte Bagnol, Mohamed Harun, Mary Young |
| In farming households affected by HIV/AIDS, the illness or death of family members often has negative effects on family food security. Village poultry can provide a source of high quality nutrition an... | |
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| Health concerns drive safe vegetable production in Vietnam | 22-23
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| Luke Simmons, Steffanie Scott |
| In the past decade there has been a lot of publicity about the large number of food-poisoning cases and attitudes towards Vietnam’s food supply have shifted. The emerging middle classes in Hanoi, Ho C... | |
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| Reviving local health knowledge for self reliance in primary health care | 24-25
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| P.M. Unnikrishnan, G. Hariramamurthi |
| Although India is endowed with a rich medical knowledge and natural resources, health status is far from satisfactory. The Home Herbal Garden programme, initiated by the Foundation for Revitalisation ... | |
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| Safer options for irrigated urban farming | 26-28
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| Bernard Keraita, Pay Drechsel, Flemming Konradsen |
| Urban vegetable farming is an important means for attaining urban food security, balanced diets, and is now the livelihood of many urban dwellers in Ghana. However, many of the vegetables commonly gro... | |
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| Community pharmacies and the promotion of local health care | 29
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| Jaqueline Evangelista, Lourdes Laureano |
| The area known as the Cerrado makes up nearly 25% of land in Brazil, and is characterised by its very high biodiversity. It is home to an invaluable cultural heritage of traditional knowledge and prac... | |
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| "Village in the City": Healthy vegetables in Trivandrum | 30-31
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| G.S. Unnikrishnan Nair |
| Trivandrum is the densely populated capital city of Kerala, the southernmost state of India. Just as some farmers near Trivandrum have been producing vegetables organically for some time, some enthusi... | |
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| It's time to ban highly hazardous pesticides | 32-33
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| Stephen Sherwood, Donald Cole, Douglas Murray |
| Development practitioners face difficulties persuading small holder farmers to reduce their use of extremely and highly hazardous pesticides. The patents on many of these pesticides expired long ago, ... | |
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| The certification of wild plant collection | 34
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| Heiko Schindler |
| Wild plant collection refers to the collection of medicinal and aromatic plants from their natural habitats. This activity needs to be carried out carefully as it can put pressure on the local resourc... | |
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| Farmers in malawi benefit from organic practices | 35
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| Rosemary C. Ngoma |
| In the 1999-2000 planting season, Kingston Jeremiah Chidumula Nkhata, a retired Chief Primary School teacher in Mzimba district, in the northern region of Malawi, thought that, if his forefathers had ... | |
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