Co-designing zoonotic diseases prevention practices when people depend on wild meat

Efoua Tomo Natacha, Pouliquen Aude, Boupana Mapeyi Gilles Aurélien, Makouloutou-Nzassi Patrice, N’dilimabaka Nadine, Ngoubangoye Barthélémy, Cornélis Daniel, Lebel Sébastien, Peyre Marie-Isabelle, Olive Marie-Marie, Vanthomme Hadrien Pierre André, Maganga Gaël Darren, Delabouglise Alexis. 2025. Co-designing zoonotic diseases prevention practices when people depend on wild meat. One Health, 20:101074, 10 p.

Résumé : In the face of the escalating frequency of diseases emergences originating from wildlife, the development of reliable strategies for controlling zoonotic diseases transmission at the interface between wildlife and human is becoming a global priority. Rural communities whose subsistence is based on hunting for wild meat extraction are natural targets of such interventions, because of their regular contacts with wildlife. To date there have been few attempts at building preventive sanitary strategies taking into account the socioeconomic and institutional constraints in which wild meat systems operate. The study presented here, conducted in eastern Gabon, aimed at conceiving risk-reduction strategies of zoonotic diseases transmitted from wildlife in a two-phase approach, namely (1) an assessment phase, based on a survey on risk knowledge and practices conducted with members of communities living on wild meat, and (2) a co-design phase based on focus group discussions to identify acceptable prevention strategies aimed at limiting the contacts creating the major risks of exposure to zoonoses infections. The use of participatory methods aiming at eliciting issues and solutions from the participants, enabled the conception of strategies that were adapted to the context and well accepted by stakeholders at different stages, namely the track, capture, transport of wild animals, the butchering of carcasses, cooking and consumption process. However, some limitations to the effective application of the strategies can be anticipated notably because of (1) the current low and biased perception of zoonotic risks by wild meat actors, and (2) the economic incentives for maintaining risky behaviors like the capture and trade of live animals and the consumption or sale of animals found dead or displaying signs of disease infection.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : zoonose, transmission des maladies, animal sauvage, approche participative, chasse, transport d'animaux, communauté rurale, capture animale, contrôle de maladies, faune, abattage d'animaux, Enquête pathologique

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Gabon

Mots-clés libres : One Health, Zoonoses, Biosecurity, Wildlife, Wild meat, Hunting, Central Africa

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission

Agences de financement hors UE : Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial, Agence Française de Développement, Centre for International Forestry Research, Wildlife Conservation Society

Projets sur financement : (EU) Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme

Auteurs et affiliations

• Efoua Tomo Natacha, CIRMF (GAB)
• Pouliquen Aude, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (GAB)
• Boupana Mapeyi Gilles Aurélien, Université de Montpellier (FRA)
• Makouloutou-Nzassi Patrice, CIRMF (GAB)
• N’dilimabaka Nadine, CIRMF (GAB)
• Ngoubangoye Barthélémy, CIRMF (GAB)
• Cornélis Daniel, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (FRA)
• Lebel Sébastien, Université de Montpellier (FRA)
• Peyre Marie-Isabelle, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-0887-3418
• Olive Marie-Marie, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA)
• Vanthomme Hadrien Pierre André, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (FRA)
• Maganga Gaël Darren, CIRMF (FRA)
• Delabouglise Alexis, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-5837-7052 - auteur correspondant

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/614414/)

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