Structural drivers of vulnerability at the human-rodent interface in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique

Figuié Muriel, Mapaco Lourenço, Caron Alexandre, Hofisso Leonardo, Gomes-Jaintilal Lara, Cappelle Julien. 2023. Structural drivers of vulnerability at the human-rodent interface in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. CABI One Health, 2023, 12 p.

Résumé : This socio-anthropological study investigates the relations between humans and rodents in an area adjacent to the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. Designed as part of the larger researcher on mammarenaviruses, it explores the social dimensions of the rodent-human interface, considering its spatial and temporal variability. Its results contribute to our understanding of the socio-ecological context in which new pathogens or new routes of pathogen transmission could arise and potentially spread diseases. A vulnerability-based approach was used to assess human exposure, sensibility and capacity to adapt to rodents. This study revealed: (i) Local knowledge of the dynamic of rodent populations over the last few decades, with new invasive rodents displacing native species; (ii) the social-ecological factors thought to be behind this invasion: climate change, new infrastructure (e.g., construction of a dam), new agricultural practices (e.g., cultivation of sunflowers) and policies (human resettlement); (iii) the significant impact associated with new invasive rodents (e.g., crop losses, damage to belongings), the limited capacity for individual and collective interventions to mitigate damage, and the little concern shown for rodent-related diseases; (iv) women and girls' high vulnerability to potential rodent-borne diseases due to frequent direct and indirect contact with rodents in the domestic space; and (v) the added-value of using a vulnerability-based methodology, over the more commonly used Knowledge-Attitudes-Practices (KAP) methodology, to map the structural factors shaping the human-rodent interface and its dynamic. Our findings suggest that the vulnerability-based approach could offer an opportunity to better respond to the One Health ambition by integrating social dimensions of health and grasping the complexity of the social and material context in which new pathogens could emerge and spread.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : relation homme-faune, transmission des maladies, vulnérabilité, anthropologie sociale, zoonose, Rodentia, Mammifère nuisible, approche Une seule santé

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Mozambique

Mots-clés complémentaires : socio-écologie

Mots-clés libres : Animal, KAP study, One Health, Environmental history, Mozambique, Socio-anthropology, Zoonoses

Classification Agris : L72 - Organismes nuisibles des animaux
S50 - Santé humaine
U70 - Sciences humaines et sociales

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

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Projets sur financement : (FRA) MUSE

Auteurs et affiliations

• Figuié Muriel, CIRAD-ES-UMR MOISA (MOZ) ORCID: 0009-0002-9878-0553 - auteur correspondant
• Mapaco Lourenço, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA)
• Caron Alexandre, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (MOZ) ORCID: 0000-0002-5213-3273
• Hofisso Leonardo, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (MOZ)
• Gomes-Jaintilal Lara, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (MOZ)
• Cappelle Julien, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-7668-1971

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/604346/)

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