Intersectoral Fellowships on Irrigated Agriculture and Human Health in Malawi

项目摘要/摘要 马拉维灌溉、农业生产和卫生能力建设跨部门研究金 该方案旨在为12名博士后研究员(4名来自 美国和马拉维)，强调农业、水资源 农业(灌溉)和疟疾的开发和利用该方案将侧重于 通过绿化带倡议(GBI)实现土地和水的转化，这是一项涉及灌溉和 马拉维的农业发展。其目标是通过减少对农业的依赖来提高农业生产率 降雨，使更多的土地投入生产，改善农村经济。我们的目标是缓解 GBI对健康的不利影响。我们认为GBI是其他大规模项目的代表 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。它很少是 大规模水基农业开发包括同步和并行发展 避免和尽量减少伴随而来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在对生态和社会的实证和建模分析 GBI将导致的转型的维度：扩大 地表水及其对蚊媒种群和随后的疟疾传播的影响 流行率，以及如何通过干预措施遏制疟疾传播来降低这些风险 保持农业生产目标和预期经济效益。长期的合作 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)将提供培训背景。 马拉维密歇根州立大学国际疟疾研究卓越中心(ICEMR) 由NIAID资助的财团将作为这项研究的中心，正在进行的疟疾研究也是如此 传播和粮食安全。合作将吸引一个多学科的教职员工小组， 在(1)土地改造和土地利用中疟疾的生态学和流行病学方面的专门知识 改变进程；(2)灌溉系统、土地改造和农业生产；(3)治理、政策、 以及(4)生态系统服务和完整性。此协作将吸引经验丰富的人员参与 科学家和精心挑选的博士后研究员协调研究、实施、学术和 咨询。最终结果将是一批训练有素的专业人员准备支持农业 在实现可持续发展的同时，预防疟疾相关的发病率和死亡率。

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.