FAO-EMPRES Animal Health News

Improving poultry health and management in three high-risk villages in Luangprabang, Lao PDR
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

 

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 more]

 


 

Towards developing FAO’s guidance on Animal Health Emergency Operations Centres – first milestone achieved

 

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 more]

 


 

World antibiotic awareness week in Cambodia: handle food safely and combat AMR
FAO Cambodia representation

 

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 more]

 


 

FAO, USAID Support the Government of Liberia Develop a National Animal Disease Surveillance and Response System
FAO Liberia representation

 

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 more]

 


 

FAO, Government cooperate on developing possible scenarios and their impacts on Ethiopia’s livestock sector
FAO Ethiopia representation

 

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

 

Early Warning Early Action report on food security and agriculture
January-March 2019

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

 

·         FAO China ECTAD Highlights ::: Vol. 118 (November 2018)
[Read full PDF]

 


 

Upcoming meetings

 

·         National Stakeholder’s Consultative Workshop Emerging Diseases Threats Next Generation (EDiT-NEXT GEN) Program 
20-23January 2019 ::: Alexandria, Egypt
[Visit FAO Egypt website]

·         Livestock mobility and FMD surveillance and control in Africa
22 January 2019 ::: Rome, Italy (FAO HQ)
[Visit EuFMD website]

·         Meeting of the OIE ad-hoc group on MERS-CoV 
22-24 January 2019 ::: Paris, France

·         Validation of Rabies Action Plan
24-25 January 2019 ::: Grand Bassa County, Liberia
[Visit FAO Liberia website]

·         FMD Post-vaccination Monitoring Workshop
24-25 January 2019 ::: Kampala, Uganda
[Visit EuFMD website]

EMPRES website ::: http://www.fao.org/AG/empres.html
For comments or suggestions ::: [log in to unmask]

http://www.fao.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_b471b08fe9.gif.gif   Latest videos on animal health   Follow us on Twitter!

               



To unsubscribe from the EMPRES-Livestock-L list, click the following link:
&*TICKET_URL(EMPRES-Livestock-L,SIGNOFF);