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Policy Brief - Is One-Health Plant Blind
This policy brief argues that current implementations of the One Health framework remain “plant-blind,” overlooking plants as active determinants of health and reinforcing a bias towards animal- and pathogen-focused approaches.
Why plant health is missing from One Health and why it matters for policy
Hendrickx, L.A., Martinou, K., Stoykova, N., Groom Q., Scalera, R., Vanderhoeven, S.
This policy brief argues that current implementations of the One Health framework remain “plant-blind,” overlooking plants as active determinants of health and reinforcing a bias towards animal- and pathogen-focused approaches. This limits prevention by neglecting key ecological drivers such as food system resilience, ecosystem stability, and microbiome interactions.
Despite their central role in nutrition, ecosystem functioning, and disease dynamics, plant health and plant diversity are rarely included in monitoring frameworks, reflecting a systemic governance gap rather than a lack of scientific knowledge.
The brief calls for the integration of plant indicators, stronger investment in biodiversity knowledge systems, and greater inclusion of plant expertise in policy to support a more preventive and resilient One Health approach.
