ABSTRACT
The Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger and malnutrition of all forms calls for a sound framework, covering the main relationships between agriculture and health/nutrition. This chapter reviews the nature and evidence of agriculture-health/nutrition linkages with the aim of identifying opportunities for positive impacts of investments in institutional and technological change. Investments for enhanced health improvement through agriculture may target agriculture directly, such as nutrition-sensitive agriculture, or may aim at enhancing synergies or reducing transaction costs in markets and services, or may actually be outside agriculture to complement agriculture's health effects, such as water and sanitation systems. The chapter addresses selected key components of the framework in which agriculture and health/nutrition linkages are operating, and may need more attention in emerging economies. A focus on nutrition and health, working backwards to the identified linkages with agriculture and the intermediate forces of markets and income, may be most practical.
