FAO enhances dialogue between feed regulators and private sector
Animal feed may contribute to animal health and welfare, food safety and to the mitigation of the adverse impacts of the livestock sector on the environment. FAO strives to enhance dialogue among all operators along the feed and food chains to ensure food safety and to recognize that safety of products of animal origin and animal health and welfare start with healthy feed materials. [...]
HIGHLIGHTS
Controlling foot-and-mouth disease in South Asia
FAO and the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) will open a three-day conference on 13 February to gauge the future direction for controlling foot-and-mouth disease across large swaths of South Asia, where the disease can mean ruin for poor families dependent on livestock for income and food. Advances in vaccines will be a main focus.[...]
PUBLICATIONS
Working Paper 7:-
Designing and implementing livestock value chain studies: A practical aid for Highly Pathogenic and Emerging Disease (HPED) control