ONE FOOD: A TOOLKIT FOR FARMERS

The 'One Food' toolkit by WWF South Africa promotes a holistic approach to farming that integrates human, animal, and environmental health. It identifies risks such as invasive alien plants, livestock diseases, and climate-driven hazards like heat waves and floods. The guide provides specific actionable advice for livestock and crop farmers, emphasizing agroecology, rotational grazing, and natural pest control to enhance biodiversity and climate resilience.

• The 'One Food' concept is a holistic framework that integrates human, animal, and environmental health to identify hazards and promote sustainable food production while protecting ecosystems.
• Livestock farming faces environmental challenges where overgrazing reduces carbon storage in the soil and invasive alien plants (IAPs) diminish available grazing land. Additionally, biodiversity loss exacerbates livestock diseases such as lumpy skin and bluetongue.
• Farmers are experiencing increased climate-related disruptions, including floods, droughts, heat waves, and arson-caused fires, which negatively impact crop growth.
• The toolkit recommends specific agroecological practices for crop farmers to improve resilience, such as using drought-friendly crops (e.g., cowpeas, amaranth, and sweet potato), implementing rainwater harvesting, and using natural pest deterrents like marigold, blackjack, and ash.
• Sustainable rangeland management for livestock is achieved through rotational grazing to prevent erosion, the use of small controlled burns instead of frequent burning, and keeping animal waste away from water sources.

APA

WWF South Africa (2025). ONE FOOD: A TOOLKIT FOR FARMERS. https://wwfafrica.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf-one-food-brochure-eng-web-2.pdf

Chicago

WWF South Africa. ONE FOOD: A TOOLKIT FOR FARMERS. 2025. https://wwfafrica.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf-one-food-brochure-eng-web-2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{wwfsouthafrica2025one, author = {{WWF South Africa}}, title = {{ONE FOOD: A TOOLKIT FOR FARMERS}}, institution = {WWF South Africa}, year = {2025}, url = {https://wwfafrica.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf-one-food-brochure-eng-web-2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }