Challenges and opportunities of the One Health approach, from the agri-food system                              Session 1: Dialogue - Intersectoral approaches for One Health

Background

FAO promotes the application of the One Health approach as part of the transformation of the agri-food system for the benefit of human, animal, plant and environmental health. This involves a wide range of actors and work related to sustainable agriculture, animal, plant, forest and aquaculture health, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), nutrition and livelihoods.

Ensuring a One Health approach is essential to make progress in predicting, preventing, detecting and responding to diseases that spread between animals and humans, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and food safety, as well as managing environmental determinants of risks to human and animal health, within a set of interlinked disease causation challenges. The adoption of a One Health approach is also fundamental to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

During the 2024-2025 biennium, a series of webinars will be held to promote this integrative approach to a systemic approach to human, animal, plant and environmental health.

General Objectives of the Series

• To understand the evolving theoretical framework of the One Health concept and the need for its global adoption to promote human, animal, plant and environmental health.
• Recognize the technical policy framework that now drives the global One Health agenda of the Quadripartite Alliance (FAO, WHO, UNEP).
• Review the areas that are part of the One Health response in the agri-food system and its interactions with other sectors, disciplines and organizations.
• Promote the knowledge, awareness and commitment of participants to advocate, promote and adopt projects, activities and programs in their respective countries and work environments that consider the One Health approach.
• To facilitate the exchange of experience and best practices to strengthen the implementation of the One Health approach at local and regional levels.

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