Sustainable intensification?: Implications for the emergence of diseases

Currently new human diseases are emerging at the rate of one every four months. Around 20%of human emerging diseases are caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens and around 75% are zoonotic. Diseases are also emerging in livestock, companion animals, wildlife and plants. A systematic literatu...

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Autores principales: Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K., Unger, Fred, Hung Nguyen-Viet
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Publicado: International Livestock Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43802
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author Grace, Delia
Bett, Bernard K.
Unger, Fred
Hung Nguyen-Viet
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description Currently new human diseases are emerging at the rate of one every four months. Around 20%of human emerging diseases are caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens and around 75% are zoonotic. Diseases are also emerging in livestock, companion animals, wildlife and plants. A systematic literature review was conducted to synthesize best available scientific knowledge about zoonotic disease transmission through direct or indirect domestic livestock-wildlife interaction, with emphasis on risk factors, drivers and trajectories of transmission, and promising interventions for controlling important zoonoses based on managing livestock-wildlife interaction.The study found complex associations with agricultural intensification and disease emergence: • Biodiversity, bush meat consumption, expanding ecotones, increases in synanthropoic species, land use change and livestock intensification are commonly cited and inter-related causes of emerging infectious diseases. • Societies with intensified agriculture bear a much lower burden of human endemic zoonotic disease and globally the burden of human endemic zoonotic disease is decreasing. • Massive under-reporting constrains our ability to detect endemic and emerging diseases in livestock and wildlife. • Since the 1930s most disease emergence has been reported from countries with intensive systems. • In the last ten years, proportionally more emergence events are reported from developing countries. • Countries most at risk for disease emergence from livestock intensification were India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China. Priorities identified for better understanding and managing the risks of agricultural intensification and disease emergence included: targeting hotspots and increasing surveillance in these areas; identification of risk factors and disease drivers in order to mitigate them; generating evidence on the costs of emerging disease and its prevention.
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spelling CGSpace438022025-11-04T17:21:36Z Sustainable intensification?: Implications for the emergence of diseases Grace, Delia Bett, Bernard K. Unger, Fred Hung Nguyen-Viet trypanosomiasis zoonoses Currently new human diseases are emerging at the rate of one every four months. Around 20%of human emerging diseases are caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens and around 75% are zoonotic. Diseases are also emerging in livestock, companion animals, wildlife and plants. A systematic literature review was conducted to synthesize best available scientific knowledge about zoonotic disease transmission through direct or indirect domestic livestock-wildlife interaction, with emphasis on risk factors, drivers and trajectories of transmission, and promising interventions for controlling important zoonoses based on managing livestock-wildlife interaction.The study found complex associations with agricultural intensification and disease emergence: • Biodiversity, bush meat consumption, expanding ecotones, increases in synanthropoic species, land use change and livestock intensification are commonly cited and inter-related causes of emerging infectious diseases. • Societies with intensified agriculture bear a much lower burden of human endemic zoonotic disease and globally the burden of human endemic zoonotic disease is decreasing. • Massive under-reporting constrains our ability to detect endemic and emerging diseases in livestock and wildlife. • Since the 1930s most disease emergence has been reported from countries with intensive systems. • In the last ten years, proportionally more emergence events are reported from developing countries. • Countries most at risk for disease emergence from livestock intensification were India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China. Priorities identified for better understanding and managing the risks of agricultural intensification and disease emergence included: targeting hotspots and increasing surveillance in these areas; identification of risk factors and disease drivers in order to mitigate them; generating evidence on the costs of emerging disease and its prevention. 2014-09-17 2014-09-30T10:47:31Z 2014-09-30T10:47:31Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43802 en Open Access application/pdf International Livestock Research Institute Grace, D., Bett, B., Unger, F. and Hung Nguyen-Viet. 2014. Sustainable intensification? Implications for the emergence of diseases. Poster presented at the Tropentag 2014 Conference on Bridging the Gap between Increasing Knowledge and Decreasing Resources, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-19 September 2014. Nairobi, Kenya. ILRI.
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