Two-way links between health and farm labor

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere, Catherine Chiang, Paul Thangata and Kwaw S. Andam

No 17, 2020 conference briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Health issues are increasingly affecting household decisionmaking, farm labor, and agricultural productivity in developing countries. Similarly, certain agricultural development projects and practices that aid productivity (for example, the use of pesticides and the water harvesting techniques, storage structures, and dams involved with irrigation) can actually exacerbate the incidence of diseases in workers by increasing interactions with disease vectors and parasites. Failure to consider either the negative or positive health effects of certain farm practices or interventions can distort their impact; for example, an estimate of the real economic benefits of adopting pest-resistant crops or organic farming must take into account the positive health impacts accruing from decreased pesticide use.

Keywords: agricultural workers; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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