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.

项目总结/摘要 马拉维灌溉、农业生产和卫生能力建设跨部门奖学金 该计划旨在为12名博士后研究员提供多学科的研究培训（其中4名来自 美国和马拉维的8个），强调农业、水资源和环境之间的强有力的相互作用。 农业（灌溉）和疟疾的开发和利用该计划将侧重于 通过绿色带倡议（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。 降雨量和带来更多的土地用于生产，改善农村经济。我们的目标是减轻 GBI对健康的不利影响。我们认为GBI是其他大型项目的代表， 穿越非洲该项目利用马拉维的环境作为研究和培训实验室。很少是因为 大规模的、以水为基础的农业发展包括同时和平行的发展， 预防和尽量减少伴随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在生态和社会的实证和建模分析， GBI将导致的转型的各个方面： 地表水、其对蚊媒种群的影响以及随后的疟疾传播， 流行率，以及如何通过干预措施减少这些风险， 保持农业生产目标和预期的经济效益。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和自然资源大学将提供培训。 国际疟疾研究卓越中心（ICEMR），一个MSU - U-M -马拉维大学 由NIAID资助的一个财团将作为研究的中心，正在进行的疟疾研究也将如此 传播和粮食安全。该合作将吸引一个多学科的教师群体， （1）土地改造和土地利用中的疟疾生态学和流行病学 变化过程;（2）灌溉系统，土地改造和农业生产;（3）治理，政策， （4）生态系统服务和完整性。此次合作将吸引经验丰富的 科学家和精心挑选的博士后研究员在协调研究，实施，奖学金， 协商最终结果将是一批训练有素的专业人员， 这将有助于发展，同时防止与疟疾有关的发病率和死亡率。