TITLE:
Local Role of Food Producers' Communities for a Global One-Health Framework: The Experience of Translational Research in an Italian Dairy Chain
AUTHORS:
Chiara Frazzoli, Alberto Mantovani, Roberto Dragone
KEYWORDS:
Contaminated Sites; Ecology; Food Losses; Sustainable Food Safety; Technological Transfer; Traceability
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Environment,
Vol.3 No.2B,
May
2,
2014
ABSTRACT: Community is the
foundation of public health: the present paper reports the approach and strategy
for intervention on the dairy production community developed by the Italian
project ALERT (www.alert2015.it), which implements the transfer of technical innovation and
technological know-how from public research. Starting from the local role of primary
producers, North-South and South-South networking (www.noodlesonlus.org) is needed to share solutions
for transnational problems like climatic change, contaminated agro-farming
sites and food waste and losses in the era of food crisis. Based on risk
analysis, science-society dialogue and global health, the main drivers of this
experience of translational research are One Health, i.e. the web of inter-relationships
among environment, farm animals and human health, and sustainable food safety
(prevention actions on diet of young women, today, to protect next generation’s
health) to increase population life expectancy in good health.