Workshop 3

Towards a territorial approach of the OneHealth vision: issues and perspectives?

Moderateurs: G. Calvo (Diversité et Développement), M. Champredonde (INTA), M. Gisclard (INRAE), I. Maglietti Smith (Origin for Sustainability)

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The “OneHealth” approach was introduced some twenty years ago (“One Health Basics | 2021”) and opens the perspective toward a global and systemic approach to human, animal and environmental health, usually considered in isolation. This holistic view places human Health within the Health of the ecosystem. It revolutionizes the understanding of human/non-human interactions and questions human activities and their ecological sustainability.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the excesses of a globalized, fragile and not very resilient production system and the impacts on ecosystem health. The degradation of agroecosystems plays a role in the increased prevalence of pandemics and the loss of biological richness in the environment.

The urgency of the pandemic and the ecological crisis invite territorial governments to take a stand and think about new sustainable development trajectories for territories’ health. First of all, they will have to be efficient in natural resource management and the regulation of production practices.

OneHealth brings a radically different ecological vision that shapes how we act and live in the ecosystem. Everything we do to our environments; we do to ourselves. It is a revolution in thinking, research objects, and the way disciplines work. By linking very different entities (soils, plants, ecosystems, bacteria and humans), the concept of OneHealth makes it possible to think differently about the joint changes to be made in agriculture, agribusiness and food (Duru, 2022).

In this context, we ask the following questions:

How are sustainable development issues addressed at the scale of territories and through the prism of a OneHealth approach?

What is the importance of territorial specificities (local resources, practices, landscape elements, wild biodiversity, biodiversity of domesticated species, consumption habits, etc.) concerning ecosystem health? What links do they have?

In this workshop, we will address these questions based on 4 thematic axes. The first concerns public policies at the territorial level and their role in communities’ health. The following sessions will address the “OneHealth” vision from different angles: wild and domestic fauna, human physiology and food practices, ecosystems and inter-species relations.