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Agro-ecosystems, natural resources management and human health related research in East Africa

Proceedings of an IDRC–ILRI international workshop held at ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11–15 May 1998 

editors M.A. Jabbar, D.G. Peden, M.A. Mohamed Saleem and H. Li Pun

© 2000 ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute)

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ISBN 92–9146–068–0

Correct citation: Jabbar M.A., Peden D.G., Mohamed Saleem M.A. and Li Pun H. (eds). 2000. Agro-ecosystems, natural resources management and human health related research in East Africa. Proceedings of an IDRC–ILRI international workshop held at ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 11–15 May 1998. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. 254 pp.

ILRI–IDRC planning workshop on agro-ecosystem health 11–15 May 1998

Foreword

Welcoming address

Executive summary

Section one

Agro-ecosystem health analysis: Theory and concepts

One assumption, two observations and some guiding questions for the practice of agro-ecosystem health

Ecological approach to agricultural production and ecosystem theory: The amoeba approach

NRM and human health: Applying principles of integrated pest management to people

Towards an understanding of associative society: Characteristics, potentials, constraints

Section two

Agro-ecosystems, natural resources management and human health related research in East Africa: Case studies

Agro-ecosystem health: Principles and methods used in high-potential tropical agro-ecosystem

R&D experience of IAR in NRM and crop–livestock interactions in the highlands of Ethiopia

R&D experience in KARI, linking livestock system improvement, human health and NRM

A Kenyan experience on R&D efforts linking crop and livestock improvement, NRM and human health

Research and development experience of FARM–Africa (Ethiopia)

Human health and resource management: AMREF experience

Livestock development and impact on diet quality and the growth and development of children

The intra-household economic and nutritional impacts of market-oriented dairy production: Evidence from the Ethiopian highlands

The nutritional and health status of women and children in households without crossbred cow in Holetta Wereda, Ethiopia

Section three

Agro-ecosystem, natural resources management and human health related research: Regional perspectives

African Highland Initiative: A framework for research and development on NRM in the highlands of East and Central Africa

Development experiences of livestock production systems in Hindu Kush Himalayan region

ILRI highlands research: Past activities and future plan

Section four

Development of a research proposal

Enhanced human well-being through improved livestock and NRM in the East African highlands: A draft research proposal

Concepts of sustainability, agro-ecosystem health and applications to agricultural production

Challenges and opportunities for incorporating gender within IDRC's ecosystem approaches to human health programme initiative: Opportunities in the Ethiopian Highlands Project

Appendix I. Gender analysis: Key concepts and issues

Summary of group discussions and recommendations

IDRC–ILRI workshop on agro-ecosystem health 11–15 May 1998

List of participants