CIRAD at the One Health Summit, to hammer home the importance of agricultural and food issues

Event 30 March 2026
The One Health Summit, co-presided by France and Indonesia, will be held in Lyon (France) from 5 to 7 April 2026. CIRAD, along with ANSES, is helping to organise a scientific symposium, One Health, One Science, coordinated by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space. From this scientific symposium to the high-level segment for Heads of State, through a village aimed at the general public and an international festival, the summit is intended to speed up the rollout of One Health approaches worldwide. CIRAD researchers are actively involved.
A farmer with his goats in Senegal © R. Belmin, CIRAD

A farmer with his goats in Senegal © R. Belmin, CIRAD

The essentials: 

  • One Health approaches are based on the concept that human, animal, plant and ecosystem health is closely linked.
  • At the One Health Summit, the One Health, One Science scientific symposium will be covering four key topics—zoonotic and vector-borne diseases; antimicrobial resistance; sustainable food systems; and exposure to pollution—along with three transverse questions: the role of human and social sciences; data; and governance. 
  • CIRAD has been addressing One Health issues in its research for many years, and scientists from several discipline are working on the topic. Some 20 scientists from CIRAD will be in Lyon to contribute to the final recommendations for Heads of State, participate in the PREZODE event, and meet the general public in the Discovery Village. 

As health threats worldwide become both more numerous and more complex, there is an urgent need to promote One Health approach and speed up their rollout. 

We now urgently need to achieve a paradigm shift, to make sure that health becomes a matter of “healths”: human, animal and environmental. One Health issues mean working on a multi-sector, interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder scale and on every level: local, national, regional, multi-country and global.
Thierry Lefrançois
Adviser to the CEO of CIRAD, specialist in One Health approaches

Interdisciplinary expertise to address One Health issues

Health risks are now being exacerbated by human and animal movements, trade in various products, and intensive pesticide use, among other factors, and also by climate change and extreme natural phenomena. CIRAD’s scientists are working at the nexus of these many fields and thus have messages to put across for each of the seven topics covered by the One Health Summit: zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, pollution, sustainable food systems, governance, human and social sciences, and data. 

One Health Summit, CIRAD's seven key messages

CIRAD, which has been working on the global One Health approach since the very beginning, is actively involved in the One Health Summit to be held in Lyon on 6 and 7 April. This high-level event is a unique opportunity to consolidate, promote and implement the approach, which is more urgently needed than ever. Seven topics are centre- stage, and you can find out below what CIRAD has to say about each of them.

A scientific symposium for policy recommendations

The One Health, One Science scientific symposium organised by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space in collaboration with CIRAD and ANSES (Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire), is intended to bring together the entire range of disciplines and sectors to work on the conditions for effective interaction between science and policymaking and thus support the rollout of One Health approaches. Recommendations for Heads of State are due to be drafted.

The symposium will be held from 10 am to 6 pm on Monday 6 April, at the Centre de Congrès in Lyon.

Programme: "One Health, One Science" symposium | One Health Summit 

Where CIRAD will be at the One Health Summit 

As well as contributing to the scientific symposium, CIRAD’s scientists will be at the Discovery Village open to the general public on 5 and 6 April, alongside Agronomes & vétérinaires sans frontières (AVSF), VetAgro Sup and the PREZODE international initiative. They will also be taking part in the PREZODE strategy meeting and a dozen or so events during the One Heath Festival, which includes more than 150 events in France and elsewhere from 16 March to 15 May 2026. 

Discover the programme:

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