Integrating Livestock and Human Health in Veterinary Services

1
Integrating Livestock and Human Health in
Veterinary Services

• Dr. David Waltner-Toews
• President, Veterinarians without
  Borders-CanadaProfessor, University of Guelph
• Presentation to International Conference on
  Livestock Services (ICLS), Beijing, China. April
  16-22, 2006

2
All in the same Picture Producer, Processor,
Consumer Animal Welfare Activist
3
Veterinary service for what, and for whom?

• What / Who is Agriculture For?

4
Agriculture for Food
5
Subsistence- feeding farmers
Intensification - Feeding Cities
6
Managing Landscapes
7
Livelihoods Off Farm
Livelihoods On Farm
8
Ecosystem Services Threats pollination,
disease, sustainability, new resources
Crops
Water
Livestock
Manure
Food
People
Offal, Deadstock
Fertilizer
Energy labour, fossil fuel, technology
9
We are looking at a social system linked to an
ecological system
10
If we ignore the feedbacks and complexity, we
WILL create problems
11
Focus on production create disease
Trends in selected gastrointestinal infections,
England and Wales 1977 to 2000
From CDR Weekly, Feb.8 2001
12
Similar for S. gallinarum and S. entreritidis
13
How to provide services?

• Identify all the important outcomes, including
  possible unintended ones disease, production,
  energy, ecosystem health
• Measure the baselines Who will do this?
• Why? (Need Motivation!)
• How? (Need Capacity!)
• Establish feedback loops of reporting and action
  this requires and builds trust between
  stakeholders PEOPLE NEED A REASON TO REPORT

14
Integrate

• Integrate problem definition, policy, management
  and service (much more EFFECTIVE to address
  multiple interacting issues)
• Integrate training, physical capacity for animal,
  human and ecosystem health care workers (Much
  more EFFICIENT - no need for totally separate
  labs and training)

15
(No Transcript)
16
Integrated Animal, Human and Ecosystem Health
Why are we here?
Engage all the owners
Describe The (whole) system
Monitor Reassess indicators
Identify a set of Goals (trade-offs)
Take Action (Management)
Make Plans (Policy)
Waltner-Toews, 2001
17
Engage!
18
AMESH Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem
Sustainability and Health

• AMESH is a more detailed methodology developed as
  part of rural development projects in Nepal,
  Peru, Kenya and Canada (Waltner-Toews, 2004)

19
(No Transcript)