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1) Check out the 2012 livestock markets: FAO analysis, prices, country statistics and policy changes in 201s.  See attached and for more commodity coverage refer to the recently released November Food Outlook: http://www.fao.org/giews/english/fo/index.htm.
 
 
2) FAS/USDA has also released their Livestock and Poultry World Markets and Trade and is available at http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/livestock_poultry.pdf. The contact person at USDA is:

Claire Mezoughem, Senior Livestock Analyst, [log in to unmask]). They also have useful PSD (country level production, supply and demand tables) which are helpful for country analysis.

 

3) Great video pulled from FAO's recent livestock policy forum held in Bangkok in August http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiT027HEXoo&feature=plcp.  Congratulations to  Vinod Ahuja, FAO's livestock policy officer in Bangkok.  

 

4) FAO and partners develop joint strategies for PPR control in East Africa

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_191012b.jpgFAO recently organized two workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to work with development partners in East Africa to map out strategies to curb the economic damage caused by the deadly peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague.’ The meeting put in motion the first steps necessary to create a regional initiative in the Horn of Africa that would prevent and control the spread of PPR across borders forward...[Read full news]

 

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Training manuals on fodder production kindly shared with us by Alan Duncan and his colleagues (in response to a request sent to the CoP-PPLD Secretariat):



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