The EuFMD’s training programme
The EuFMD has focused on development of e-learning in the past two years and we are now delivering numerous courses and workshops, both online and realtime. Our most recent developments include Risk Analysis along the Value Chain and the Laboratory Investigation course, in collaboration with The Pirbright Institute. A number of the new courses are the “in-depth” ones where participants are required to study at least 4 hours a week [...]
Modern technology improves traditional livelihoods in Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, between 2 and 2.5 million families earn a living from the dairy sector and 80 percent of all the country’s milk comes from smallholder farmers who own four or fewer cows. Within the vast borders of Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth largest country, livestock are an important part of people’s livelihoods and food security [...]
IN ACTION
- 11/12/17. Different contexts yet similar challenges - FAO facilitated knowledge-sharing workshop on pastoral land tenure reveals similar challenges across eastern and southern Africa
- 8/12/17. Meeting of the FAO/OIE GF-TADs for Pacific Countries from 28-30 November 2017 in Nadi Fiji
- 7/12/17. Una nueva herramienta tecnológica ayudará a vigilar enfermedades animales en Mesoamérica
- 7/12/17. FAO boosts Kenya’s Animal Disease Surveillance Capacity and Performance Evaluation
- 6/12/17. Preserving effectiveness of antimicrobials through safe, prudent use
- 6/12/17. La FAO accompagne les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne à développer un programme régional de formation en épidémiologie de terrain pour les vétérinaires
PUBLICATIONS
Factsheet: Country progress in the implementation of the Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance: WHO, FAO and OIE launch global tripartite database
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Scientific poster: A staged, progressive control pathway for tsetse-transmitted African animal trypanosomosis
- Scientific Articles:
- Short tandem repeat (STR) based genetic diversity and relationship of indigenous Niger cattle [...]
- Effect of genetic European taurine ancestry on milk yield of Ankole-Holstein crossbred dairy cattle in mixed smallholders system of Burundi highlands [...]
- Reducing antimicrobial use in food animals Consider user fees and regulatory caps on veterinary use [...]