FAO and OIE unveil strategy to control foot-and-mouth disease

FAO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are joining forces to combat foot-and-mouth disease on a global scale, laying out a detailed strategy to bring the devastating livestock disease under control. The two organizations underlined, however, that only solid commitment from global partners will make the strategy possible. [...]

AGA in ACTION
Livestock epidemic causing havoc in DR Congo. FAO is mobilizing emergency support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to counter the rapid spread of peste des petits ruminants, a virulent livestock disease of goats and sheep. The disease not only threatens food security in the country, but could also result in a spill-over to southern African countries that have never had the disease. [...]
PUBLICATIONS	HIGHLIGHTs
Animal Genetic Resources – an international journal (No. 50)	Controlling foot-and-mouth disease in Eurasia They call it the ruminant road – a flow of animals along the roads that come out of Pakistan and Afghanistan, heading north towards Central Asia and west all the way to Turkey. The flow is one of the major contributors to the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. An innovative FAO approach is tackling that problem via its West Eurasia Foot-and-Mouth Disease Roadmap [read more]
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective – Livestock’s many virtues
Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Information Bulletin Volume 34 part 2 [English] [Français]