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Improving Livelihoods through the control of animal diseases
FAO Regional Office for Africa
[cid:image011.jpg@01D19C84.622AE710]The European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a new agreement aimed at improving food and livelihoods security and resilience of smallholder livestock farmers in Zimbabwe. This agreement comes at a time when crop and animal production prospects in Zimbabwe have been dampened by the El Niņo weather phenomenon that has been characterized by low and poorly distributed rainfall and increased temperatures. The expected reduced agricultural output in 2016 follows on last year's disappointing season, which has already contributed to higher food prices and left almost a third of the population food insecure...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/africa/news/detail-news/en/c/411272/>]
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Bali fights against rabies with Mass Dog Vaccination
FAO Indonesia representation
[cid:image012.jpg@01D19C84.622AE710]Bali Province reinforces the war against rabies with the 7th round of mass dog vaccination which starts today in Desa Munggu, Badung District. This effort is a major part of the strategy to achieve total eradication of rabies in Bali. Provincial and Central government efforts to control rabies in Bali since 2010 achieved a 99 percent reduction in human cases and a 90 percent reduction in animal cases between 2011 and 2013. However, an increased incidence of human and animal rabies cases occurred in 2014 and 2015. This resulted in three reported human fatalities due to rabies in 2014 and a further 15 human deaths from rabies in 2015, while confirmed animal rabies cases increased to 529 in 2015...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/indonesia/news/detail-events/en/c/411271/>]
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Government, partners unite to improve animal disease control
FAO Laos representation
[cid:image013.jpg@01D19C84.622AE710]Despite the government taking measures to fight against Avian influenza over the past 10 years, the virus remains a challenge for Laos and other nations around the world. To address the issue, the govenment and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), plan to work together to control the disease more effective. To do so, the government, FAO and USAID yesterday launched a four-year project to improve the capacity of Laos to be able to prevent, detect, and respond to animal diseases that could affect livelihoods and spread to humans. The four-year project (2016-2019) aims to improve the country's capabilities to effectively prevent, prepare and respond to high impact emerging zoonotic diseases in animal populations...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/laos/news/detail-events/en/c/409699/>]
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Recent publications
· Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest
Meeting report ::: 20-22 January 2016
[Read full PDF<http://www.fao.org/3/a-bc963e.pdf>]
· FAO Viet Nam ECTAD Newsletter
1October 2015 - February 2016
[Read full PDF<http://www.fao.org/3/a-be785e.pdf>]
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Upcoming events
· FAO component of the USAID EPT-2 programme: country planning meetings for Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso
21-22 April 2016 (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
· FAO component of the USAID EPT-2 programme: country planning meetings for Guinea
25-26 April 2016 (Conacry, Guinea)
· Foot-and-Mouth Disease Progressive Control Pathway (FMD-PCP) - West Eurasia example
26 April (online webinar - only in Russian)
[Visit EuFMD site<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/commissions/eufmd/commissions/eufmd-home/upcoming-events/en/>]
· Fourteenth Meeting of the ASEAN Taskforce on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Prevention and Control
26-28 April 2016 (Kuala Lampur, Malaysia)
· Launching Meeting for Southeast Asia: Support to Address Avian Influenza and Other High Impact Animal Diseases in Asia
29 April 2016 (Kuala Lampur, Malaysia)
· Economic impact due to animal diseases (Foot-and-Mouth Disease - FMD)
29 April 2016 (online webinar)
[Visit EuFMD site<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/commissions/eufmd/commissions/eufmd-home/upcoming-events/en/>]
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Interesting links
· Somalia exports 5.3 million animals, 6% growth in 2015<http://www.fao.org/somalia/news/detail-events/en/c/410266/>
News by FAO Regional Office for Africa
· EU, FAO sign 650,000 Zim livestock project<http://www.herald.co.zw/eu-fao-sign-%EF%99%8E650-000-zim-livestock-project/>
News by The Herald (21 April 2016)
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