Details — Agricultural Technology, Bio-fortification and Child Nutrition in Uganda — December 9
| Date: 12/9 | Time: 12:15 pm |
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The Center for Business & Economics will welcome Dr. Rosemary Isoto at 12:15 p.m Monday, December 9, in Quigley 220. She will present her paper, entitled “Agricultural Technology, Bio-fortification and Child Nutrition in Uganda.” Despite big strides in economic growth, a general decline in poverty levels and an improvement in life expectancy at birth, Uganda continues to lag in terms of reducing child mortality and malnutrition. The immediate causes of malnutrition among children in Uganda and elsewhere continue to be the high disease burden as well as inadequate dietary intake. However, many other factors contribute to nutritional outcomes, among them, the performance of the agricultural sector.
Recent compelling study reviews reveal a number of key pathways that connect improvements in agriculture to improved nutritional outcomes. They include higher agricultural incomes, lower food prices, more nutritious on-farm production and consumption, and synergies between agriculture and nutrition and health arising from women’s empowerment. This study investigates the linkages between modern agricultural technology and child nutrition with a specific focus on production of bio-fortified food crops.
Dr. Rosemary Isoto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics (DANRE) at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Before joining DANRE, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Boston. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.