Evidence Inbox
Collaborating to Connect: Cross-Sectoral Efforts to Conserve Wildlife, Achieve Food Security, and Combat Zoonotic Diseases
This evidence brief primarily summarizes research entitled, “Food Security, Health, and Biodiversity: Can Cross-Sector Solutions Assure Bushmeat Emerges as a 21st Century Sustainable Food?” conducted by Dr.
Why eat wild meat? Factors affecting the success of alternative protein projects
Hunting wildlife for meat widely practiced in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) but also widely understood to be unsustainable in many countries.
Using conservation criminology to understand the role of restaurants in the urban wild meat trade
At unsustainable rates and in illegal contexts, the wild meat trade is a driver of species extinction; it can also threaten ecosystem services, local food security and contribute to the risk of zoonotic disease spread.
Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters
Globally, two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, 151 million children under five suffer from stunting, and millions more have impaired cognitive development related to poor nutrition.
Attitudes, practices, and zoonoses awareness of community members involved in the bushmeat trade near Murchison Falls National Park, northern Uganda
The harvest of bushmeat is widespread in the tropics and sub-tropics.
Wild meat alternative projects: practical guidance for project design
This guide provides practical advice for conservation experts on how to design projects to reduce the consumption of wild meat by promoting alternative sources of protein.
Increasing zoonotic infectious diseases and COVID-19: Time to rethink wild food
The third pandemic has hit the globe during the last two decades repeating the zoonotic history of the viral out breaks.
The COVID-19 challenge: Zoonotic diseases and wildlife. Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management's four guiding principles to reduce risk from zoonotic diseases
The far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 on the entire planet have mobilized numerous calls to prevent similar pandemics in the future.
Combating the Commercial Bushmeat Trade in Central Africa
Fact Sheet: Unsustainable hunting for wild-sourced meat, commonly referred to as bushmeat, has been identified as one of the greatest threats to Central Africa’s wildlife.
The Harvest of Tropical Wildlife for Bushmeat and Traditional Medicine
Bushmeat is not only an important source of fat, micronutrients, and macronutrients, but it also has medicinal uses.
COVID-19, Systemic Crisis, and Possible Implications for the Wild Meat Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wild animals play an integral and complex role in the economies and ecologies of many countries across the globe, including those of West and Central Africa, the focus of this policy perspective.
Towards a Sustainable, Participatory, and Inclusive Wild Meat Sector
What emerges from this synthesis is that the governance of wild meat will ultimately depend on understanding and working with both local people and wider civil society, with approaches that focus solely on either ecological or socio-economic goals running the risk of failure in the long term.
Benefits of wildlife consumption to child nutrition in a biodiversity hotspot
Terrestrial wildlife is the primary source of meat for hundreds of millions of people throughout the developing world.
Sustainable Wildlife Management and Wild Meat
Sustainable wildlife management (SWM) is the sound management of wildlife species to sustain their populations and habitat over time, taking into account the socioeconomic needs of human populations.
Disentangling the relative effects of bushmeat availability on human nutrition in central Africa
We studied links between human malnutrition and wild meat availability within the Rainforest Biotic Zone in central Africa.
Unintended consequences of the ‘bushmeat ban’ in West Africa during the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease epidemic
Following the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, governments across the region imposed a ban on the hunting and consumption of meat from wild animals.
Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Threats
The Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program strengthens capacities in developing countries to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people with an emphasis on early identification of, and response to, dangerous pathogens from animals before they can become significant threats to human health.
One Health Workforce (OHW)
EPT-2 will build on the lessons and knowledge from its predecessors and bring heightened focus to those “places and practices” that enable not just “spill-over” of new microbial threats, but potentiate its “amplification and spread”, and invest in the One Health policies and capacities needed for their prevention and control.
Preparedness and Response (P&R)
The goal of the Preparedness and Response (P&R) project is to enable national Governments to establish and strengthen systems, policies, and practices for prevention, detection, response, and control of emerging disease threats – especially zoonotic diseases.
Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG)
Kenya’s 23 counties in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are home to over 10 million people and constitute over 70 percent of Kenya’s landmass.
