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Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus non-rice-growing villages in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

120 Citations2022
Kallista Chan, Lucy S Tusting, Christian Bottomley

Irrigated rice-growing communities in sub-Saharan Africa are exposed to greater malaria risk, as well as more mosquitoes, and there is an urgent need to improve methods for growing rice without producing mosquitoes.

Abstract

Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health programme, CGIAR Agriculture for Nutrition and Health.

Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus n