Vector-borne disease and climate change adaptation in African dryland social-ecological systems

Wilcox Bruce A., Echaubard Pierre, De Garine-Wichatitsky Michel, Ramirez Bernadette. 2019. Vector-borne disease and climate change adaptation in African dryland social-ecological systems. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 8 (1):36, 12 p.

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Résumé : Background: Drylands, which are among the biosphere's most naturally limiting and environmentally variable ecosystems, constitute three-quarters of the African continent. As a result, environmental sustainability and human development along with vector-borne disease (VBD) control historically have been especially challenging in Africa, particularly in the sub-Saharan and Sahelian drylands. Here, the VBD burden, food insecurity, environmental degradation, and social vulnerability are particularly severe. Changing climate can exacerbate the legion of environmental health threats in Africa, the social dimensions of which are now part of the international development agenda. Accordingly, the need to better understand the dynamics and complex coupling of populations and environments as exemplified by drylands is increasingly recognized as critical to the design of more sustainable interventions. Main body: This scoping review examines the challenge of vector-borne disease control in drylands with a focus on Africa, and the dramatic, ongoing environmental and social changes taking place. Dryland societies persisted and even flourished in the past despite changing climates, extreme and unpredictable weather, and marginal conditions for agriculture. Yet intrusive forces largely out of the control of traditional dryland societies, along with the negative impacts of globalization, have contributed to the erosion of dryland's cultural and natural resources. This has led to the loss of resilience underlying the adaptive capacity formerly widely exhibited among dryland societies. A growing body of evidence from studies of environmental and natural resource management demonstrates how, in light of dryland system's inherent complexity, these factors and top-down interventions can impede sustainable development and vector-borne disease control. Strengthening adaptive capacity through community-based, participatory methods that build on local knowledge and are tailored to local ecological conditions, hold the best promise of reversing current trends. Conclusions: A significant opportunity exists to simultaneously address the increasing threat of vector-borne diseases and climate change through methods aimed at strengthening adaptive capacity. The integrative framework and methods based on social-ecological systems and resilience theory offers a novel set of tools that allow multiple threats and sources of vulnerability to be addressed in combination. Integration of recent advances in vector borne disease ecology and wider deployment of these tools could help reverse the negative social and environmental trends currently seen in African drylands.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : vecteur de maladie, changement climatique, zone aride, adaptation aux changements climatiques

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Afrique au sud du Sahara

Mots-clés libres : Drylands, Vector-borne disease, Socio-ecological systems

Classification Agris : L73 - Maladies des animaux
P40 - Météorologie et climatologie
S50 - Santé humaine

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 4 (2019-) - Santé des plantes, des animaux et des écosystèmes

Auteurs et affiliations

• Wilcox Bruce A., ASEAN (THA) - auteur correspondant
• Echaubard Pierre, ASEAN (THA) - auteur correspondant
• De Garine-Wichatitsky Michel, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (THA) ORCID: 0000-0002-5438-1473
• Ramirez Bernadette, World Health Organization (CHE)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/592723/)

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