Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Yale  Yale News FDR Distinguished Public Service Award in Washington DC, April 9th, 2008. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." — Teddy Roosevelt    Community Health Gardens in Rwanda > Roosevelt Home > Yale > International Development > Community Health Gardens Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): Much has been accomplished in recent years to make anti-retroviral therapy (ART) available at a reasonable cost to counter Africa’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. However, ART lacks effectiveness when a patient is malnourished. HIV/AIDS and malnutrition form a vicious cycle. The year-long Rwanda project examined the relationship between HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and agriculture in Rwanda and East Africa. The Center on International Development designed a set of policy recommendations for non-profit organizations in East Africa to simultaneously target malnutrition and HIV/AIDS.  The three main policy components are: (1) Garden cooperatives for high-nutrient crops (2) Education and training on sustainable agriculture, animal husbandry, and nutrition (3) Income generation through crop, animal, and seed sale The goal is to enhance long-term food security, decrease malnutrition, foster economic development, and support effective HIV/AIDS care, and treatment. Improved nutrition will allow antiretroviral drugs to work more effectively. The policy recommendations were published in a manual (along with policy recommendations on solar energy from the Center on the Environment) and distributed to non-profit organizations involved in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Rwanda. This project was conducted in conjunction with Gardens for Health International (GHI), an international non-profit founded by former Center on International Development Co-Director Emily Morell, to implement this policy and build community gardens in Rwanda. Related Materials and Links: Full Policy Report on Community Gardens: May 2007 Gardens for Health International website Group members: Rebecca Anastos-Wallen Ambika Bhushan Lillian Chen Sophie Cooper Faizan Diwan Evan W Gogel Rachel S Hansen Rena Karefa-Johnson Jennifer Landau Joo Hyun Lee Rebecca S Levenson Hae-in Lim Emily A Morell Allison Neswood Kathy Peng Jillian Roland Rachel Sam Haun Saussy Bryce Scanlan Natehaniel J Scherer Paul D Schneider Spencer Sherman Stephanie Soderborg Tina M Thomas Ellie Woodward Laura Zax Hilary J frankel irene.scher@yale.edu   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359