Opportunities and limiting factors of intensive vegetable farming in malaria endemic Côte d'Ivoire

Acta Tropica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-123

  Girardin, Olivier ^a   Dao, Daouda ^a,b   Koudou, Benjamin G ^a,b   Essé, Clémence ^a,b   Cissé, Guéladio ^a   Yao, Tano ^b   N'Goran, Eliézer K ^a,b   Tschannen, Andreas B ^a,c   Bordmann, Gérard ^d   Lehmann, Bernard ^c   Nsabimana, Christian ^e   Keiser, Jennifer ^f   Killeen, Gerry F ^d,g   Singer, Burton H ^f   Tanner, Marcel ^d   Utzinger, Jürg ^f  

^a CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; C te d'Ivoire; Drip irrigation; Labour force productivity; Malaria; Poverty reduction; Rural development; Vegetable farming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; CROP YIELD; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; MALARIA; VEGETABLE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CABBAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROP; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FARMING SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INFECTION PREVENTION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MALARIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PLANT YIELD; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL AREA; SEASON; VEGETABLE; ZOOLOGY;

AFRICA; COTE D'IVOIRE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA;

EID: 9144266302     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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