03/11/22 |   Biodiversity  Food security, nutrition and health

Video marks The World's One Health Day

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Jaime Souza - The video shows the importance of the integrated approach between science, culture, community and ecosystem.

The video shows the importance of the integrated approach between science, culture, community and ecosystem.

This November 3rd, when the World´s One  Health Day is celebrated, Embrapa presents the video "Children, Forests and Poetry", which highlights the importance of the integrated approach between science, culture, community and ecosystem.

The Resex Verde Forever is the largest extractive reserve in Brazil with 1 million and 200 thousand hectares, comprising 80% of the municipality of Porto de Moz, in the region of Baixo Amazonas. In the reserve area, more than 2,500 families live in 183 communities and localities. Logging is an important source of income for communities through Community Forest Management.

The video, produced under the Bom Manejo 2 Project, coordinated by Embrapa Eastern Amazon and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), shows the workshop held with children from the Green Forever Extractive Reserve, in Port of Moz, Pará State Link?), to mark the Amazon Day, celebrated on September 5th. The Bom Manejo 2 project works with companies, communities, public managers and forest professionals to disseminate good practices for forest management.

In Portuguese and with english subtitles and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), the goal of the video, according to researcher Milton Kanashiro, coordinator of the Bom Manejo 2 project and president of Embrapa's Forest Portfolio, is to give visibility to the different approaches of doing science in the communities through new languages and strengthen the concept of One Health, which brings a holistic and integrated view of human health, animal, plant and environment.

 

 

One Health

According to the United Nations (UN), the concept of One Health involves a holistic and integrated, collaborative and transdisciplinary approach that aims to balance the health of people, animals, plants and the environment at local, regional, national and global levels. The One Health Joint Action Plan 2022-2026 - UN presents the concept and recognizes the interconnection and interdependency among human, animal and ecosystem health.

The concept was established in 2008 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and since 2016 November 3rd celebrates One Health in the world.

For Milton Kanashiro, it is essential to have a holistic and integrated view of health, especially in the context of global issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic, food insecurity, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.

"For the Amazon and Brazil, this integrated and cross-cutting approach is even more important for global health," he says. The researcher points out that this concept involves systems of thought and approaches, private public partnerships, governance, legal and institutional frameworks, and the knowledge of traditional peoples and populations, as mentioned in the “The One Health Joint Action Plan” cited above.

"Personally, I understand that Embrapa is very important in this herculean task, because it has expertise, in the most different areas of knowledge that One Health advocates", analyzes the researcher. He adds that institutions, such as Fiocruz, were pioneers in the dissemination and strengthening of this concept in Brazil.

Future Vision

Embrapa's Future Vision document takes a look at the application of the concept of Single Health in agriculture and aligns with the achievement of the goals proposed in the 2023 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The text says: "Food systems encompass social (people) and natural (environmental) elements and their complex interactions. Thus, in the future, in order to ensure the global food security of all, from producers to supply chains and consumers, the public and private sectors should adopt a One Health approach so that food is safe for consumption. (...) Ensuring the health of plants and animals will avoid the risk of spreading cross-border diseases that negatively affect the livelihood, trade and economic growth of nations around the globe."

Ana Laura Lima (MTb 1268/PA)
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental

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