Project Leader:
Dr. Pedro Sanchez
Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Pedro Sanchez
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
Core Disciplines:
Health
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)