Sustainable Livestock
Technical Network

Focus on COVID-19
Newsletter No 96, 10 November 2020
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human-wildlife-livestock interactions are increasing as human populations expand, and urbanization and economic activities (such as wildlife trade, husbandry, agriculture, fishing, infrastructure development, mining and logging) encroach into wildlife habitats. This greater proximity enhances the probability of disease spillover from wildlife to humans, or wildlife to livestock to humans. The COVID-19 pandemia shows once more the importance of understanding better the root causes of zoonotic diseases to prevent future outbreaks and support a green recovery. 

the Editor
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics
See here
WHO: SARS-CoV-2 mink-associated variant strain – Denmark
Read here
FAO Policy Brief - Build Back Better in a post COVID-19 world: Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
Read here
 
FAO White paper: Build back better in a post-COVID-19 world – Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
More here
See online version

FAO Sustainable Livestock Technical Network coordination team:
Daniela Battaglia, Tonia Galasso

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