Insights from the Food Systems Tranformation for One Health project, Zambia

Food systems[1] have evolved to have suboptimal outcomes for human health, plant health, animal health, environmental health and soil health. Ensuring a sustainable food system that leads to healthy outcomes is a key priority, yet also faces challenges of changing demands, policy on agricultural practice, and production constraints including by a changing climate. The Food System Transformation for One Health (FoSTA-Health) has been investigating the ways in which food system transformation can contribute to one health outcomes – that address human, plant, animal, environmental and soil health – as part of a regional initiative in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. This presentation will give some insights from the Zambia-specific research, which focuses on dietary transitions, the relationship between crops shifts and insects, and how landscape changes affect vector-borne disease risk. The project has also had a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and will present a summary of stakeholder perceptions…