One Health in Turkana County, Kenya: Applications and Lessons Learned
This case describes the development of the One Health Strategy in Turkana County, Kenya. Turkana can act as a model for implementing One Health to improve the health and livelihoods of pastoralists in...
View ArticleHow Crop-livestock Clinics Are Advancing One Health: A Pilot Case from Uganda
This case narrates the early experiences with crop–livestock clinics – a novel, integrated advisory service for smallholder farmers, which is based on existing government extension structures and...
View ArticlePlastic Pollution: How Can the Global Health Community Fight the Growing...
Plastic products and plastic waste threaten human health because of their toxicity, role in disease propagation, possible interference with food supply through their environmental effects and...
View ArticleHealthy Soil for Healthy Humans and a Healthy Planet
This review argues that a healthy soil is multifunctional and is capable of supporting human and planetary health. A broad framework is provided for quantifying soil health, with such an approach...
View ArticleWHO Guidance for Climate-resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health...
The aim of this guidance is to enhance the capacity of health care facilities to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an unstable and changing climate; and to empower health...
View ArticleCoastal Urbanization Influences Human Pathogens and Microdebris Contamination...
Seafood is one of the leading imported products implicated in foodborne outbreaks worldwide. Coastal marine environments are being increasingly subjected to reduced water quality from urbanization and...
View ArticleMapping Potential Conflicts Between Global Agriculture and Terrestrial...
Demand for food products, often from international trade, has brought agricultural land use into direct competition with biodiversity. This study provides a quantitative basis to better understand and...
View ArticleProgressive Management Pathway for Terrestrial Animal Biosecurity
FAO has pioneered the progressive management pathway (PMP) approach to assist countries, industries, and producers to gradually implement improved and sustainable levels of risk management. Now, a PMP...
View ArticleRights and Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and Planetary Health
This Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) Policy Note aims to elevate the views expressed by Indigenous leaders in the 2023 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and call attention to how...
View ArticleThe Effectiveness of Global Protected Areas for Climate Change Mitigation
Forests play a critical role in stabilizing Earth’s climate. Establishing protected areas (PAs) represents one approach to forest conservation, but PAs were rarely created to mitigate climate change....
View ArticleImportance of a One Health Approach in Advancing Global Health Security and...
The One Health community has faced difficulties in determining specific One Health impact indicators for formally evaluating One Health successes. In this paper, the author a) briefly reviews the...
View ArticleOpportunities and Challenges of Bio‐based Fertilizers Utilization for...
Bio-based fertilizers (BBFs) have been promoted as a solution to help manage bio-waste problems and improve soil health conditions. This study found that contamination of heavy metals and pathogens is...
View ArticleImproving the Ecological and Economic Performance of Agri-environment...
Researchers and policy-makers have become increasingly interested in re-designing agri-environmental policy to improve both economic efficiency and ecological effectiveness. One idea within this debate...
View ArticlePathogen Spillover Driven by Rapid Changes in Bat Ecology
During recent decades, pathogens that originated in bats have become an increasing public health concern. Our long-term study identifies the mechanistic connections between habitat loss, climate and...
View ArticleClimate-Resilient Biodiversity Programming Stocktaking
It is no surprise to conservationists that biodiversity is at great risk from climate change; however, as climate impacts become more acute, attention to the long-term impacts of climate change is...
View ArticleOne Health: A Common Facet in USAID Strategy and Policy
One Health is a pragmatic approach that helps tease apart the complexity and supports collaboration across sectors for long-term, holistic solutions. Learn more below or by downloading this file.
View ArticleCommunity Perspectives in USAID Biodiversity Programs
In 2023, USAID supported participatory photography workshops in the Philippines, Peru, and Madagascar, collaborating with local partners and communities to capture their unique perspectives on...
View Article2024 USAID Environment & Sustainability Conference
An opportunity to join USAID for an evening reception with Implementing Partners and Stakeholders at the 2024 USAID Environment & Sustainability Conference.
View ArticleHow Land Transformation and Migration Could Impact the Public Health Crisis...
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers snakebite envenoming–the potentially life-threatening disease caused by toxins from a venomous snake–a Neglected Tropical Disease.
View ArticleEmpowering Cambodian Youth to Reduce Bushmeat Demand: USAID Cambodia Green...
This case study describes how USAID Cambodia Green Future, implemented by ECODIT and FHI 360, uses a social and behavior change communications approach (SBCC) to empower Cambodian citizens and civil...
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