Welcome to the One Food Community platform. This interactive platform is provided to enable the community to collaborate; offering networking opportunities, on demand content, activity feed and other resources. The platform is also used to support our events.

The One Food Community Forum took place on 28 November 2023

At the Forum our partners shared their updates on their work on One Food programme. Find out more here.

One Food Background

One Food is an initiative founded and supported by the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.

We are an international community of experts dedicated to climate resilient, biodiverse, safe and sustainable food systems. The community first formed at the One Food South Africa Workshop, 31 October - 2 November 2022. Read more about the workshop here.

The One Food community initiates a new movement — where One Health approaches are designed-in to the operation of sustainable food systems. We want to articulate the importance of identifying and controlling hazards in food systems as a tangible means to operationalise One Health — creating safer food and a better environment.

All food production on land and in water requires energy and relies on using resources from the natural environment. Food, therefore, lies at the heart of tackling climate change, water stress, pollution, land degradation and biodiversity loss.

Simultaneously, transforming foods systems provides a unique opportunity to eradicate food insecurity and to deliver affordable healthy diets for all. Environmentally sustainable food systems are a pivot around which we can truly operationalise One Health.

The Community team are

• Dr Julie Bremner, Cefas
• Dr Jessica Witt, Cefas
• Dr Flavie Vial, APHA
• Dr Essa Suleman, CSIR
• Justin Avant, Cefas
• Dr Wendy Higman, Cefas
• Louise Smith, Cefas
• Prof Anthony Fooks, APHA
• Steve Bather, One Food Facilitator
• Dom Honey, One Food Community Manager

The Community Manager's role is to stimulate community engagement. Their responsibilities include maintaining and updating this digital platform and the website, support the membership, generate and update content and create communications.

You can contact the team by clicking here.

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