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FAO continues its effort in building veterinary services capacity for emergency management
[cid:image015.jpg@01D0E721.332D7AE0]The threat posed by the persistence of Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and their consequences to a country's economy and livelihoods leads FAO to continue its assistance to its member countries when dealing with these threats. In 2011, FAO refurbished a manual1, the "Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP): The Essentials", which set out clearly the elements required for veterinary services to achieve preparedness planning for any disease emergency...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_041015.html>]
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[cid:image016.jpg@01D0E721.332D7AE0]Central Africa sets out its roadmap towards the eradication of the 'Peste des Petits Ruminants'
FAO Regional Office for Africa
Cameroon's capital hosts two meetings that started on 24 August and which bring together about 40 participants, including Heads of Veterinary Services, Directors of laboratories and officials of epidemiological surveillance services from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/africa/news/detail-news/en/c/326458/>]
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[cid:image017.jpg@01D0E721.332D7AE0]Layer-broiler chickens going to small farms hurt by conflict in eastern Ukraine
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
A total of 7,000 three-week-old chickens are being distributed this week to small farms in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Provision of the birds is the latest move by FAO to help vulnerable households whose livelihoods have been compromised by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/europe/news/detail-news/en/c/326305/>]
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Hardy cattle boost Zimbabwe farmers' incomes
[cid:image018.jpg@01D0E721.332D7AE0]Pilate Moyo is a farmer and village head of Lupaka ward in Lupane. He recalls that when he was first invited to take part in the project, which did not offer any free hand-outs other than rehabilitation of common pool resources (dip tanks, boreholes and sale pens) and training in livestock production and health, he was sceptical. "However, the knowledge I gained represented the beginning of a better lifestyle for me and my family," he says...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/in-action/hardy-cattle-boost-zimbabwe-farmers-incomes/en/>]
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FAO interventions help raise women's status and up poultry rearing in India
[cid:image019.jpg@01D0E721.332D7AE0]By supporting grassroots initiatives to strengthen small-holder livestock rearing, and by providing strategic and evidence based advice to governments (at both the national and the state levels), the project, implemented on the ground by several NGOs, has improved food security and increased income levels in the two states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/in-action/fao-interventions-help-raise-womens-status-and-up-poultry-rearing-in-india/en/>]
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Upcoming events
* SAFEPORK
7-10 September 2015 (Porto, Portugal)
[Visit conference website<http://www.safepork2015.com/>]
* 6th Regional Animal Health Network Annual Meeting for eastern Africa and Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) Roadmap for eastern Africa Meeting
7-11 September 2015 (Kampala, Uganda)
[Download RAHN agenda<http://www-data.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/documents/agenda_RAHN_Uganda_2015.pdf> - Download PPR agenda<http://www-data.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/documents/agenda_PPR_Uganda_2015.pdf>]
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Interesting links
* Poultry Farmer Field schools in Lebanon (FFS)
FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa
Read online<http://www.fao.org/neareast/news/view/en/c/325751/>
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