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Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Climate Change, Natural Resource Management,
and Health
Liz VanWormer, University of California, Davis
Health for Animals and Livelihood Improvement (HALI) Project
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Why the Ruaha Ecosystem?
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Pastoral Health and Livelihoods in a Changing Landscape
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Pastoral Health and Livelihoods in a Changing Landscape
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
• Livelihood impacts on pastoral communiIes – Labor stress – Livestock ProducIvity – Human & Livestock Disease
• Impaired ecosystem services – Water quality – Disease Transmission – Impact on wildlife and tourism
Water Scarcity and ResulIng Threats
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
• Decreased access to water
• Decreased pasture • Direct and indirect impacts on health
Water and Livestock ProducIon
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Water Scarcity and Human NutriIon
• Decreased access to water
• Agricultural Challenges
• Direct and indirect impacts on health
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
• Decreased access to water
• Decreased food • Direct and indirect impacts on health
• Increased potenIal for human-‐wildlife conflict
Water and Wildlife
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
Shared Water Sources and Health
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
• Human urban and rural communiIes – Drinking water – Agriculture
• DomesIc animals
• Wildlife and ecotourism
MulI-‐Stakeholder Water Management
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
What are the downstream impacts of natural resource management?
Feed the Future Food Security Innova2on Labs: Collabora2ve Research Programs
• Working with environmental educaIon experts to increase understanding of connecIons among climate, natural resources, and health
• InvesIgaIng links between climate variability and livestock health, human nutriIon, and pastoralist livelihoods
HALI and Natural Resource Management
INNOVATION LABS C O L L A B O R A T I V E
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Thank you!
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