Secure meat-hungry food systems to prevent next pandemic
SciDev.net
; 2020.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1998353
ABSTRACT
Speed read Intensive agriculture for animal protein source of emerging diseases, experts say But, understanding of animal pathogen spillover incomplete, making pandemic prediction difficult Investment needed in early warning systems, One Health preparedness Sustainable agriculture and better health monitoring needed to break chain of disease transmission in food systems. Environmental hotspots Agriculture and meat production are significant contributors of greenhouse gases, both directly and through land-use change — Andersen notes that the drivers of pandemics are often the same drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss. "Climate change results in changing environmental conditions, which impacts on the ecosystem characteristics and as a result, it changes the distribution of animal species, and therefore also of any microorganisms which they carry,” Dirk Pfeiffer, a professor of veterinary epidemiology at City University of Hong Kong and the Royal Veterinary College in London, tells SciDev.Net.
Journalism; Pandemics; Climate change; Geographical distribution; Warning systems; Epidemiology; Early warning systems; Disease control; Biodiversity; Environmental changes; Greenhouse gases; Environmental conditions; Land use; Agriculture; Disease transmission; Meat; Greenhouse effect; COVID-19; Sustainable agriculture; Food sources; Food; Microorganisms; Intensive farming; Environmental impact; Meat production; Viruses; Animal protein; Animal species; Coronaviruses; Zoonoses
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SciDev.net
Year:
2020
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