FAO Lens Recasts Farmer Health as a Core Economic Asset
A new policy framing around a national farmersтАЩ health capital index is drawing attention to a long-ignored constraint on IndiaтАЩs agricultural growth: the physical health of farmers as a productive economic asset. The argument, aligned with Food and Agriculture Organization thinking, is that unless policy measures human health shocks as a direct drag on total factor productivity, farm output and rural resilience will remain structurally limited.
