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HV0178

Humans, Animals, Ecosystems – the One Health Approach in a Sustainable Global Animal Production

Through lectures the students will learn how humans, animals and ecosystems affect each other’s health. Specific topics that will be covered are diseases that can spread between animals and between animals and humans, and antimicrobial resistance. The students will also learn what different types of animal production can look like around the world and what challenges and opportunities that comes with animal production from a sustainability perspective.


Through seminars, workshops, group assignments and individual assignments the students will dig deeper into these questions and will be given the opportunity to reflect on and discuss how the health of humans, animals and ecosystems can be improved taking into account the interconnections between them, while at the same time working towards a more sustainable animal production. The students will also get to reflect on which political and social structures that can facilitate or prevent such a development.


Compulsory elements of this course can be seminars, workshops, written assignments and certain briefings.


Information from the course leader

Dear student,

Welcome to the course Humans, Animals, Ecosystems – the One Health Approach in a Sustainable Global Animal Production (HV0178)! We hope that you will enjoy the course and find it interesting.

To begin with, we want to clarify some things about the student participation. The aim for this course is to be a part of CEMUS (Centre for Environment and Development Studies) collaboration, but this course at SLU is not student driven. The course is given as a regular independent course. We will try to include the student perspective anyway. For example, you will get the chance to request a topic/lecturer for one of the lectures at the end of the course. We are also grateful for any feedback on how this course could include the students to a greater extent in the future.

Below we have listed some practical information regarding SLU and the course. We recommend you to look through this, especially those of you who are not already SLU students.

Manual for Ladok (Swedish): https://student.slu.se/globalassets/sw/studier/utbildningssystem/lathund-student.pdf

Manual for Ladok (English):

https://student.slu.se/globalassets/sw/studier/utbildningssystem/ladok-student-eng.pdf

Information about the timetable, course syllabus, course literature and links can be found here at the course page (open for all):

  • The course starts on Wednesday 19 January 17.30 and ends on Wednesday 1 June. We hope to have the course In Real Life. The lectures are given on Wednesdays except for Easter week. After each lecture you are expected to take part in a discussion (seminar) together with the other course participants. It is mandatory to participate in the first and last lecture.

  • The other lectures and seminars are not mandatory but we strongly recommend you to participate in order to be able to work with the assignments on which you will be examined. There will be three assignments during the course and one assignment at the end of the course that are based on the topics that are brought up during the lectures and seminars.

We are looking forward to see you soon!

Best regards,

Jane Morrell (course leader, jane.morrell@slu.se), Ulf Magnusson (examiner, ulf.magnusson@slu.se), Åsa Wengström (course administrator, us-frist@slu.se)

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

HV0178-30267 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for HV0178

Academic year 2022/2023

Humans, Animals, Ecosystems – the One Health Approach in a Sustainable Global Animal Production (HV0178-30283)

2023-01-16 - 2023-06-04

Academic year 2020/2021

Humans, Animals, Ecosystems – the One Health Approach in a Sustainable Global Animal Production (HV0178-30136)

2021-01-18 - 2021-06-06

Academic year 2019/2020

Humans, Animals, Ecosystems – the One Health Approach in a Sustainable Global Animal Production (HV0178-30285)

2020-01-20 - 2020-06-07

Syllabus and other information

Grading criteria

Learning Objective

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5

Course block 1:

Overview about livestock production and different production systems in the world.

Able to conduct a life-science based reasoning about the pros and cons for opinions about different kinds of livestock production

Able to dissect what is life-science based opinion and what is a cultural and political-based opinions about different kinds of livestock production

Course block 2:

Overview of risks and challenges in livestock production from a sustainability perspective.

Able to conduct a life-science based reasoning about the opportunities and challenges for different aspects of sustainability in livestock production

Able to dissect what is life-science based opinion and what is a cultural and political-based opinions about the opportunities and challenges for different aspects of sustainability in livestock production

Course block 3:

Overview of the One health aspect of livestock production.

Able to conduct a life-science based reasoning about the One health related risks in livestock production

Able to conduct a life-science based reasoning about the One health related risks in different kinds of livestock production

Course block 4:

Overview of the options for a more sustainable and healthier global livestock sector.

Able to conduct a life-science based reasoning about the options for a more sustainable, and from a One health-perspective safer, global livestock production.

Able to display conflicting interests as well as win-wins about the options for a more sustainable, and from a One health-perspective safer, global livestock production.

Litterature list

  1. Transforming the livestock sector through the Sustainable Development Goals Författare: FAO, 2018. ISBN: 978-92-5-130883-7 [Transforming the livestock sector through the Sustainable Development Goals] (https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/HV0178/30285.1920/Transforming_the_livestock_sector.pdf) Kommentar: http://www.fao.org/3/CA1201EN/ca1201en.pdf
  2. OECD-FAO Outlook 2020. [OECD-FAO Outlook 2020.] (http://www.fao.org/publications/oecd-fao-agricultural-outlook/2020-2029/en/)1) Djurens roll för livsmedelsförsörjningen i en föränderlig miljö (in Swedish) Författare: Mikaela Lindberg, Jenny Lundstro¨m, Ann Albihn, Gunnela Gustafson, Jan Bertilsson, Lotta Rydhmer, Birgitta A°hman, Ulf Magnusson [Djurens roll för livsmedelsförsörjningen i en föränderlig miljö (in Swedish)] (https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/centrb/fu-food/publikationer/future-food-reports/slu-futurefood_rapport_12.pdf)1) Sustainable global livestock development for food security and nutrition including roles for Sweden Författare: Magnusson U., 2016. [Sustainable global livestock development for food security and nutrition including roles for Sweden] (https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/andra-enh/uadm/global/pdf/fao-report-livestock.pdf)1) Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: What roles for livestock? Författare: HLPE, 2016 [Sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition: What roles for livestock? ] (https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/HV0178/30285.1920/Sustainable_agricultural_development.pdf) Kommentar: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5795e.pdf
  3. Taking a Multisectoral, One Health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries Författare: World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), 2019. ISBN: 978-92-4-151493-4 [Taking a Multisectoral, One Health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries] (https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/HV0178/30285.1920/Taking_a_multisectoral_one_health_approach.pdf) Kommentar: http://www.fao.org/3/ca2942en/ca2942en.pdf
  4. Drug-Resistant Infections: A threat to our economic future Författare: World Bank, 2017 [Drug-Resistant Infections: A threat to our economic future] (https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/HV0178/30285.1920/Drug-Resistant_Infections.pdf) Kommentar: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/323311493396993758/final-report
  5. Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance Författare: WHO, 2015 ISBN: 978 92 4 150976 3 [Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance] (https://www.who.int/antimicrobial-resistance/publications/global-action-plan/en/)1) OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2019-2028 Författare: OECD/FAO, 2019 ISBN: 978-92-64-31246-3 [OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2019-2028] (https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/agriculture-and-food/oecd-fao-agricultural-outlook-2019-2028_agr_outlook-2019-en)1) Scientific articles Kommentar: Will be added to the course's Canvas room
  6. Scientific articles Kommentar: Will be added to the course's Canvas room

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 19027 SEK Cycle: Bachelor’s level (G1N)
Subject: Environmental Science Animal Science Animal science Environmental science
Course code: HV0178 Application code: SLU-30267 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Clinical Sciences Pace: 25%