The political economy of tobacco farming in low- and middle-income countries
The following grant was awarded by, is supported by, is administered by or is in partnership with the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Funding Fogarty Program
Tobacco
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
The political economy of tobacco farming in low- and middle-income countries
Principal Institution
University of Illinois at Chicago
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Drope, Jeffrey
Project Contact Information
Email:
jdrope@uic.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2012-2023
Country
Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Zambia
NIH Partners
NCI, OD/NIH
Project Description
Identifying how the tobacco industry and its allies successfully use the narrative of tobacco control harming the economic livelihoods of tobacco farmers will lead to more effective implementation of demand-side tobacco control policies generally and the provisions of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Government officials and civil society organizations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will use this research to inform their strategies to address the tobacco industry's myths about the alleged harms of tobacco control to tobacco farmers in order to protect existing and to promote better public health legislation. The research will also help to inform governments' attempts to encourage tobacco af rmers to try other economically viable livelihoods, which is not only a provision of the WHO FCTC (Article 17), but also central to healthier lives for the millions of tobacco farmers in LMICs.
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