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The Role of One Health Approach to Feed the World and Sustain the Planet

Abstract

The current situation of the Earth, which has now become the Anthropocene, requires man to act on food system with two equally important objectives: feed the population and protect the planet. A useful concept for this purpose is One Health: a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment. All this, in fact, means that it is necessary to act in a coordinated way to achieve the same objective for the three aspects of the issue: 1) how animals, as source of foods and other functions, can affect human health; 2) how animals, according to species, production type, number etc. can affect planet health; 3) how animal health allows to achieve the previous two objectives. However, not only specific technical-scientific knowledge are important, since the planet presents completely different situations in terms of socio-economic development and this must be taken into account in the attempt to achieve One Health objectives to the maximum level possible and everywhere.

Giuseppe Bertoni

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