Dr Josef Schmidhuber, Food and Agriculture Organization, discussed the connections between health and agriculture at the LCIRAH conference in London, June 2010.

1. Health – agriculture inter-linkages and institutions: Breaking down the silos Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Health and Agriculture (LCIRAH) Dr Josef Schmidhuber Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

2. POP growth GDP growth Globalization of food patterns More demand for food, meat, LS products, offal NCDs Urbanization Reduced calorie expenditure + Fast & convenience food, more fat, salt & sugar Need to produce more food, more meat & LS products More saturated fats, cholesterol, sugar, etc. Geno/pheno predispo. Agriculture and the disease burden of NCDs and CDs: some critical links

4. POP growth GDP growth Globalization of food patterns More demand for food, meat, LS products, offal NCDs Urbanization Reduced calorie expenditure Fast & convenience food, more fat, salt & sugar CDs Peri-urban LS production Need to produce More food, more meat & LS products High animal stocking densities High “human densities”/urbanization New co-existence of large ‘ pathogen producers’ and small, ‘ pathogen distributors’ LUC, deforestation, encroachment on new land, habitats, species jump Transportation w/i countries Transportation across countries: trade Large scale production with high (prophylactic) medication, MR patho- gens but with imperfect bio-exclusion Infections, inflammations Specialization of production More saturated fats, cholesterol, sugar, etc. Geno/pheno predispo. Agriculture and the disease burden of NCDs and CDs: some critical links

6. Thank you. Questions?