Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health - a call for action to integrate.

One Health (OH) has gained considerable prominence since the beginning of the 21st century, among others, driven by the recent epidemics and the increasing importance of zoonotic diseases. Yet, despite the holistic and multidimensional nature of OH, to date, most emphasis has been on the interactions between animal and human health, with considerably less attention to environmental and plant health. However, there is growing evidence that the challenges of climate change, growing food and nutritional insecurity, and biodiversity loss can best be addressed within the context of the OH framework. Conceptionally, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) could perfectly fit into such an approach, but historically, IPM has been practiced very much in a compartmentalized manner. New approaches such as Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification offer solutions to how to successfully embed IPM into a OH framework. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Timo Falkenberg, Sunday Ekesi, Christian Borgemeister. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health - a call for action to integrate. Current opinion in insect science. 2022 Oct;53:100960

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