Projects
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One Health Approach to Reduce Health Risks in the Caribbean – AUSCAR
The AUSCAR project aims to comprehensively and collaboratively address common health issues (animal and plant health in service of human health) in the Caribbean by developing effective tools and methods for health risk monitoring and management through cooperation. It also seeks to design resilient agricultural production systems for the region.
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The CaribGREEN project, led by CIRAD and funded with one million euros by AFD, aims to implement diversified Caribbean agriculture. It promotes agro-ecological practices and integrated health management in productive and resilient ecosystems in the face of global changes.
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One Health, One Caribbean, One Love
The One Health concept provides a framework to address zoonotic diseases in a broader and more coordinated manner, at the human-animal-ecosystems interfaces by promoting transdisciplinarity and collaboration across all government sectors and society to reduce significantly health risks. "It is a unifying force to safeguard human and animal health, to reduce disease threats and to ensure a safe food supply through effective and responsible management of natural resources" – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Strategic Action Plan.
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The MALIN collaborative project aims to improve research on human, animal and plant infectious diseases in Guadeloupe for better surveillance and control of those diseases. The project joins forces of all the Guadeloupean research and surveillance institutions involved in understanding, monitoring and controlling these diseases.
Coordinated by Cirad, MALIN project relies on a multidisciplinary approach combining microbiology, epidemiology, entomology and socio-economics.
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The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Project, is one component of the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Programme titled “Support to the Caribbean Forum of ACP States in the Implementation of Commitments Undertaken under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)”.
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Epigenesis project, "One Health approach to integrate Guadeloupe research on vector-borne and emerging diseases in the European Research Area: from characterization of emergence mechanisms to innovative approaches for prediction and control" aims to expand Guadeloupe research potential on emerging and vector-borne diseases along with the "One Health" concept.
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CARIBVET, Strengthening the Caribbean Animal Health and Veterinary Public Health Network
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Veterinary Epidemiologist/Para-Epidemiologist Project
The Veterinary Epidemiologist/Para-Epidemiologist Project (VEP) is a regional project aimed at strengthening veterinary infrastructure in the Caribbean basin.
The project focuses on enabling risk-based, epidemiologically-sound surveillance for priority animal diseases in the Caribbean such as the tropical bont tick, heartwater (Cowdria ruminatum), bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, avian influenza, and classical swine fever, as well as other transboundary animal diseases, through the training and professional development of veterinary epidemiologists or para-epidemiologists.