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April 2022
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Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious global human and animal health threat and a food safety issue of primary concern. Governments and international organizations have recognized that the issue has to be approached in a multidisciplinary
manner, addressing animal, plant and human health as well as the environment under the One Health approach.
Strategic Framework for collaboration on antimicrobial
resistance – Together for One Health
This strategic framework on antimicrobial resistance represents an important milestone in the decades-long history of collaboration between the Tripartite organizations - a collaboration that now is even stronger as a result of our close engagement with the
United Nations Environment Programme. The framework sets out for the first time what our organizations – as leaders in the multilateral system on the human, animal, plant, and environmental health – will do jointly to support countries’ efforts to scale up
national responses to antimicrobial resistance. Countries and partners are strongly encouraged to replicate and amplify the One Health approach used in the framework, based on their own contexts and needs.
Understanding antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture
This factsheet describes the course that offers an overview of AMR as a global threat to human, animal and environmental health, and explains the role of the food and agriculture sector, and the impact of AMR on agrifood systems. It also describes how the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is contributing to increased awareness and engagement of all stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector, to tackle AMR.
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Animal production
Guidelines for grazing and livestock monitoring
This document offers a methodology to monitor livestock and steppe productivity. Variables such as herd size and the number of herds are monitored. Grassland productivity is assessed by indicators linked
to the Ecological Health Index (EHI) and Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV).
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Emergencies
Good emergency management practice - The essentials: A guide to preparing for animal health emergencies.Third edition
This guide to animal health emergencies includes planning in peacetime, rapid situational analysis in the emergency phase and recovery strategies in the reconstruction phase.
Now in French, Arabic; also available in English, Spanish and Russian. Now also as
MOBI | E-PUB
Simulation exercises for animal disease emergencies
This fact sheet describes the course that introduces simulation exercises as part of preparedness for animal disease emergencies. It explains the processes involved in planning, conducting and evaluating simulation exercises. It also describes the various tools,
approaches and strategies to support decision-making, as well as the different phases of an exercise.
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Foot-and-mouth disease
Foot-and-Mouth Disease – Affects pigs, cattle and
small ruminants
This leaflet gives general explanations on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) clinical signs.
Now in Montenegrin. Also available in English, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Serbian and Portuguese.
Foot-and-Mouth Disease - How does it spread?
This leaflet has been produced specifically to raise Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) awareness in the Thrace region. Non in Montenegrin. Also available in English, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Serbian and Portuguese.
1st Meeting of Global Coordination Committee on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (GCC-FMD) – Report of the virtual
meeting, 22-23 September 2021
The first meeting of the GCC-FMD was organized virtually under the umbrella of the GF-TADs, by its FMD Working Group (WG), during 22-23 September 2021. The overall purpose of the GCC-FMD is to: (i) Facilitate the implementation of the Global strategy as it
is entering the final phase of its implementation; (ii) Enhance information exchange and coordination at regional level; (iii) Enable replication of success across regions.
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More on animal health
Joint Risk Assessment Operational Tool (JRA OT):
An Operational Tool of the Tripartite Zoonoses Guide – Taking a Multisectoral, One Health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries
This publication provides detailed guidance on how to establish a joint qualitative risk assessment to address zoonotic diseases, from convening a technical team to formulating questions and characterizing risk. Now in Thai; also available in Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish)
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Pastoralism
Making way: developing national legal and policy
frameworks for pastoral mobility
Mobility is a vital strategy employed by pastoralists to capitalize on the scarce availability of resources in variable environments, making pastoralism economically feasible and environmentally sustainable. The overall objective of this handbook is to guide
the development of legal and policy frameworks for securing mobility for various pastoral production systems and practices. This handbook calls for the legal recognition and securing of pastoral mobility as a way of safeguarding and facilitating a continuous
stream of economic and social benefits for pastoralists, countries, and the environment. It facilitates a deeper understanding of pastoral mobility through examples and case studies drawn from various parts of the world and identifies considerations to be
borne in mind when legislating for mobility. Now also as MOBI | E-PUB
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Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arboviral disease affecting humans and livestock transmitted by mosquitoes. It is endemic to large areas of Africa,
resulting in widespread abortion and neonatal mortality in livestock, and severe complications in a small but significant percentage of human cases.
Rift Valley fever action framework
This RVF Action Framework is intended to provide decision makers with guidance on the best course of action to take in response to an RVF outbreak or the risk of
an outbreak, and help them develop a national action plan for this response. Now also as MOBI | E-PUB
Guidelines for the Control and Prevention of Peste
des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Wildlife Populations – Peste des petits ruminants Global Eradication Programme.
These guidelines are intended to help countries in the development and implementation of PPR eradication programmes, including objectives, policies and strategies that can be adapted to the full range of national needs, and that facilitate the integration of
the wildlife sector into the national strategic plan. They provide a conceptual framework that can be tailored to a particular national and epidemiological context. In addition, these guidelines, while specific to PPR eradication, can be adapted for any disease
at the wildlife–human–livestock interface. Now in Russian; also available in English, French and Spanish.
The global rinderpest action plan - Post- eradication
This fact sheet describes the course that addresses the need for preparedness in order to maintain freedom from rinderpest in the post-eradication era. It illustrates a stepwise approach to preparing and preventing the reintroduction of rinderpest, investigating
and reporting a suspected case, and responding to and recovering from rinderpest re-emergence, if it occurs.
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