Building an Integrated Agriculture and Health Agenda: An Agricultural Perspective - Professor Joachim von Braun, University of Bonn
1. Building an Integrated Agriculture and Health Agenda: Issues for International Research and Policy - An Agricultural Perspective - Joachim von Braun Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health London June 23, 2010
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4. Food value chain offers partners and points of entry for a perspective to serve health of the bottom 2 billions Source: von Braun 2008. Food retailers top 10: $1,091 bln • Wal-Mart • Carrefour • Metro G • Tesco • Seven & I C o n s u m e r s $4.000 bln Food processors and traders top 10: $409 bln • Nestle • Cargill • ADM • Unilever • Kraft Foods Agricultural input industry top 10: $40 bln • Syngenta • Monsanto • Bayer C • BASF AG • Dow Agro Farms Agricultural value added: $1,592 bln No. of farms: ca. 450 mln Size distr. >100 ha: 0.5% < 2 ha: 85%
5. Re-defining agriculture: The new bio-economy, driven by changed prices and technology Biomass Foods and beverages ______________ Bio-energy Staples / animal feeds Bio materials Bio chemicals Market price Market volume
6. Raw Material Supply Health Biodiversity Food Safety Energy Supply Food Safety Waste Material Waste Material BioEconomy redefines agriculture within lots of interlinked value chains Earth Agriculture Water Culture Media Fishery & Aquaculture Forestry Microbial Production Waste Industry Food and feeding stuff technologies Biotechnology Process Technology Biocatalysis Production, Exploitation and Utilisation of Biomass … Application and Processing Products Foodstuffs Biobased chemicals Biofuels Biomaterials Knowledge … by Media … in the Sectors of … by Application Animal feed Source: Bioökonomie Rat, Berlin, 2010
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8. Implications of re-definig agriculture for agriculture – health research 1. A broad inter-disciplinary perspective 2. A strong focus on positive and negative externalities of agriculture 3. A research strategy based on foresight of complex changes
25. Food and health problems are where the Poor are Sub-national poverty ca. 2005 ($1.25/day) Prevalence Number Source:. J. von Braun et.al. IFPRI), 2009. Based on Stan Wood et al
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