Intersectoral Fellowships on Irrigated Agriculture and Human Health in Malawi

马拉维灌溉农业和人类健康部门间研究金

• 批准号: 8598751
• 负责人: Edward D Walker
• 金额: $ 31.53万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-23 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8598751
• 关键词: Africa; Agricultural Development; Agriculture; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Consultations; Dependency; Development; Dimensions; Ecology; Economics; Ecosystem; Epidemiology; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Goals; Health; Human; Intervention; Irrigation; Laboratories; Malaria; Malawi; Michigan; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Natural Resources; Policies; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevalence; Process; Production; Productivity; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Training; Resource Development; Risk; Rural; Scholarship; Scientist; Services; Surface; System; Time; Training; Training Activity; United States; Universities; Water; base; disorder risk; experience; food security; implementation research; improved; international center; land use; mortality; prevent; programs; social; transmission process; vector mosquito

Project Summary/Abstract The Intersectoral Fellowships to Build Capacity on Irrigation, Agricultural Production, and Health in Malawi program aims to provide multi-disciplinary research training for twelve post-doctoral fellows (four from the United States and eight from Malawi), emphasizing the strong interaction of agriculture, water resource development and utilization for agriculture (irrigation), and malaria The program will focus on the process of land and water transformation via the Green Belt Initiative (GBI), a massive undertaking involving irrigation and agriculture development in Malawi. The goal is to increase agricultural productivity by reducing dependency on rainfall and bring more hectarage into production, improving the rural economy. Our goal is to mitigate the adverse health impacts of the GBI. We view the GBI as representative of other large-scale programs occurring across Africa. This project utilizes the Malawi setting as a research and training laboratory. Rarely is it the case that large scale, water-based agricultural development includes simultaneous and parallel development of the expertise and infrastructure required to obviate and minimize the concomitant infectious disease risks. Research and training activities will center on empirical and modeling analyses of the ecological and social dimensions of the transformation which will result from the GBI: the disease risks created by expansion of surface water, its effects on mosquito vector populations and subsequent malaria transmission and prevalence, and how these risks can be diminished through interventions that stanch malaria transmission yet maintain the agricultural production goals and desired economic benefits. The long-standing collaborations between Michigan State University (MSU), University of Michigan (U-M), and University of Malawi and between MSU and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) will provide the training context. The International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), a MSU - U-M - University of Malawi consortium funded by NIAID, will serve as a locus for the research, as will ongoing studies of malaria transmission and food security. The collaboration will engage a multi-disciplinary group of faculty with particular expertise in (1) ecology and epidemiology of malaria within the land transformation and land use change process; (2) irrigation systems, land transformation, and agricultural production; (3) governance, policy, and implementation; and (4) ecosystem services and integrity. This collaboration will engage experienced scientists and carefully chosen postdoctoral fellows in coordinated research, implementation, scholarship, and consultation. The end results will be a cadre of trained professionals prepared to support agricultural development while, at the same time, preventing malaria-associated morbidity and mortality.

项目概要/摘要 马拉维灌溉、农业生产和卫生能力建设部门间奖学金 该计划旨在为 12 名博士后研究员（其中 4 名来自 美国和马拉维八个），强调农业、水资源的强相互作用 农业（灌溉）和疟疾的开发和利用 该计划将重点关注 通过绿带倡议 (GBI) 进行土地和水资源改造，这是一项涉及灌溉和 马拉维的农业发展。目标是通过减少对农业的依赖来提高农业生产力 降雨，使更多的土地投入生产，改善农村经济。我们的目标是减轻 GBI 的不利健康影响。我们将 GBI 视为正在发生的其他大型计划的代表 横跨非洲。该项目利用马拉维的环境作为研究和培训实验室。很少有这样的情况 大规模水基农业发展包括同时和平行发展 消除和尽量减少伴随的传染病风险所需的专业知识和基础设施。 研究和培训活动将集中于生态和社会的实证和模型分析 GBI 带来的转型的维度：扩张带来的疾病风险 地表水及其对蚊媒种群的影响以及随后的疟疾传播和 流行率，以及如何通过阻止疟疾传播的干预措施来降低这些风险 保持农业生产目标和预期经济效益。长期合作 密歇根州立大学 (MSU)、密歇根大学 (U-M) 和马拉维大学之间以及 密歇根州立大学和利隆圭农业与自然资源大学 (LUANAR) 将提供培训环境。 国际疟疾研究卓越中心 (ICEMR)，密歇根州立大学 - 密歇根大学 - 马拉维大学 由 NIAID 资助的财团将作为该研究的中心，以及正在进行的疟疾研究 传播和粮食安全。此次合作将吸引多学科的教师团队 (1) 土地改造和土地利用中疟疾生态学和流行病学方面的特殊专业知识 改变流程； （二）灌溉系统、土地改造和农业生产； (3) 治理、政策、 和实施； (4) 生态系统服务和完整性。此次合作将邀请经验丰富的 科学家和精心挑选的博士后研究员在协调研究、实施、学术和 咨询。最终结果将是一支由训练有素的专业人员组成的骨干队伍，准备支持农业 发展，同时预防与疟疾相关的发病率和死亡率。