Projects Database

Earth Institute’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Food, Ecology, Human Nutrition, and Health

Project Leader:
Dr. Pedro Sanchez

Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Pedro Sanchez

Locations: Kenya, Uganda

Description:
The Tropical Agriculture Program provides leadership of the Earth Institute’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Food, Ecology, Human Nutrition, and Health. This interdisciplinary research effort in Uganda and Western Kenya to develop the relationships between agriculture, nutrition and health is conducted jointly with Columbia University’s Institute for Human Nutrition and its Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED).

EI Unit:
Tropical Agriculture Program

Cross Cutting Themes:
Food, Ecology and Nutrition

Poverty

Global Health

Core Disciplines:
Health

Social Sciences

Project Web Site:
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/tropag/policy/hunger_task_force.html

Collaborating Institutions:
Columbia University’s Institute for Human Nutrition and its Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED)

Last Modified: 12-31-1969