Agroecology and One Health are complementary approaches to achieving a world where everyone has access to safe and nutritious food while protecting the environment.

The first Plenary Assembly of the Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform opened today at FAO.

Guinea hosted a significant gathering of One Health and biosecurity stakeholders on 29 September 2023, marking the official launch of the FAO American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Guinea Project.

In its effort to accelerate the progress of the One Health approach, FAO has just become the 17th UN agency to join the Regional Health Alliance.

As part of the World Food Forum, we invited youth to send their creative art pieces on The One Health Future We Want.

One Health Day on 3 November is an international campaign to mark the need for a One Health approach to address health threats at the human-animal-environment interface.

This four-paper Lancet Series explores the adoption of One Health approaches to improve health security and include an analysis of the current landscape of preventive, surveillance, and response measures in outbreak situations of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic infectious diseases with epidemic potential as well as other potential public health emergencies such as neglected endemic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, environmental and chemical hazards and natural disasters.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred efforts to forge an integrated approach to the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health, with FAO)stepping up work on a roadmap for putting it into practice. FAO, which over the last year held the rotating chair of the Tripartite, also including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), has played a key role in developing a Joint Plan of Action for One Health.

The misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, is causing a growing problem called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR can lead to the failure of our most important medicines. It is estimated that infections caused by resistant germs kill one person every minute. Without global action, this number is set to rise.

The heads of FAO, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The high-level global leaders group will advocate for urgent action to combat antimicrobial resistance across all sectors and ensure the availability of important medicines for the future.

The One Health Intelligence Scoping Study identifies potential opportunities for improved technical harmonization of the Quadripartite collaboration and other prioritized systems to strengthen One Health intelligence.

The World Bank kick-started the application process to the Pandemic Fund, calling for proposals for an initial envelope of USD300 million. The Fund is the direct result of G20 Finance and Health Ministers efforts, pushed forward under the leadership of the Italian, Indonesian and Indian Presidency.

Improved early warning systems are needed to reduce the risk from unknown emerging zoonotic diseases – those diseases that can spread between animals and people. This message was shared with participants at the One Health Intelligence Scoping Study External Advisory Group workshop.

The SAFE project focuses on the connection between wildlife trafficking and zoonotic disease transmission with the aim to prevent future pandemics. In line with a One Health approach, aimed at finding the balance between the health of people, animals and ecosystems, SAFE understands that protecting wildlife and preventing wildlife crimes is important to protect human health.

White paper calls for enhanced prevention of zoonotic spillover within the triad of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. It advocates for the need to reduce the risk of zoonotic disease spillover at source through improved prevention measures, an approach that is more efficient than relying on disease detection and response.

LOGin is a feature interview series by the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva. Through LOGin, we meet with FAO’s core leadership and discuss a corporate initiative. This month, we met Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General, to learn more about FAO’s One Health Initiatives.

This first joint plan on One Health aims to create a framework to integrate systems and capacity so that we can collectively better prevent, predict, detect, and respond to health threats. Ultimately, this initiative seeks to improve the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment, while contributing to sustainable development.

The future of livestock in Ethiopia: Opportunities and challenges in the face of uncertainty report looks out to 2050 and presents alternative scenarios, or plausible portrays, of the future of the cattle sector in Ethiopia. It portrays  possible livestock futures by shedding light on emerging challenges and uncertain disruptive events associated with a transformed livestock sector and by identifying priority areas of action to take today for a sustainable livestock in the long-term.

This free online course is for frontline human and animal health service providers in West Africa.

This course offers an overview of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a global threat to human, animal and environmental health.