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Poultry producer groups have joined forces with the Northern Agriculture and Forestry College (NAFC) and relevant local authorities from Lao PDR to study the community poultry flock
health management approach and associated disease risk reduction at the Puparn Royal Development Study Centre in North-east Thailand. The study centre provides comprehensive technical and academic training as models for farmers to implement in their own communities...[Read
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The Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health (EMC-AH) held its first technical working group meeting to produce a framework for establishing Animal Health Emergency Operations
Centres (AH-EOC). A project funded by the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Held from 18 to 20 December 2018, the three-day meeting was an opportunity for 27 experts from over 10 countries...[Read
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Antibiotics are vital to treat infections in people, animals and plants, but their misuse can lead to treatment failure when microbes develop resistance. As a result, human deaths
due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are estimated to increase from today’s 700,000 worldwide to 10 million in 2050. For comparison, that is more than the 8.2 million per year who currently die of cancer and 1.5 million who die of diabetes...[Read
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Technical experts representing the animal and human health sectors have developed for the first time an Animal Disease Surveillance and Response System in Liberia that will provide
tangible and achievable solutions towards preventing, detecting and responding to emerging and re-emerging zoonotic and non-zoonotic economically important diseases of the country...[Read
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supported the Government of Ethiopia to develop four plausible future (2050) scenarios for Ethiopia and its cattle dairy and beef systems
and to assess their impacts on public health, environment and livelihoods through a participatory and consultative process at a scenario...[Read
more]
Recent publications
The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) report on food security and agriculture is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides a quarterly
forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks to food security and agriculture, specifically highlighting: - potential new emergencies resulting from imminent disaster threats - new developments in countries already affected by protracted crises which are
likely to cause a further deterioration of food insecurity...[Read full PDF]
Recent newsletters
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FAO China ECTAD Highlights ::: Vol. 118 (November
2018)
Upcoming meetings
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National Stakeholder’s Consultative Workshop Emerging Diseases Threats Next Generation (EDiT-NEXT GEN) Program
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Livestock mobility and FMD surveillance and control in Africa
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Meeting of the OIE ad-hoc group on MERS-CoV
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Validation of Rabies Action Plan
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FMD Post-vaccination Monitoring Workshop |
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EMPRES website ::: http://www.fao.org/AG/empres.html |
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