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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume IV - 2012 171  consumption, or industry. Water, agriculture and human health are closely related. More than 5 million people die each year from diseases caused by unsafe drinking water, and the lack of sanitation and water for hygiene (Postel, S.L., G.C. Daily et. Al). Human health, malnutrition and other related diseases are the matter to be seriously considered. World health organization (WHO) has recommended four strategies of intervention for preventing malnutrition. These include fi rstly, improved water supply, secondly, education for a healthy diet, thirdly improved access, by the poor, to adequate amounts of healthy food and fourthly, ensuring that industrial and agricultural development (WHO, 2000 , WHO/NHD/00.7). Thailand has been a country of agriculture for more than 700 years. Wisdom of agriculture of Thai ancestor is precious heritage transferred from time to time until to our generation. In addition, medical wisdom has developed in Thai society as shown by the re fl ection of intelligence of Thai precursors in the welfare of Thai life style at that time. Advanced medical science has been currently been developed and adopted in Thai society. However, expenditure of medical service could hardly cover for the whole people in the nation. The solution to this issue is how to manipulate two disciplines; medical science and agriculture. This article has elaborated in an attempt of integrating and creating the model of combination between local wisdom and the newly advance knowledge of agriculture and medical science. Basic needs for human Four basis needs of human including environment, food, shelter and medication are brought up for addressing the new strategy of agriculture. The optimal world population and the balanced needs are shown in Figure 1. As shown in Figure 3, the scenario of world overpopulation will interfere with all these four factors. Deteriorated environment, insufficient food supply, shortage of drug for people, and lack of or poor quality shelter are the major consequence of overpopulation. Deforestation and urbanization cause degeneration of biodiversity. This leads to high risks of disaster, starvation, poor sanitary and diseases which are all the further consequences. Monnipha Sila-asna, Ahnond Bunyaratvej