COVID-19: Food security in the Pacific

01/02/2021

The pandemic's impact across the Pacific has been immense. For many countries in the region, imported foods constitute half of a person's food intake. If the pandemic continues, and the global and local supply chain is affected, it will disrupt the region's food systems, explains Eriko Hibi, F...

Antimicrobial Resistance: Why it matters

10/02/2020

For around 60 years, antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs have been used to treat and prevent diseases in livestock, aquaculture and crop production, and to make food production generally more efficient. But their overuse and misuse is causing antimicrobial resistance. So how widespread i...

Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?

15/02/2021

All around the world, people, plants and animals are dying from infections that cannot be treated – even with the best medicines available. That's because of the rise in antimicrobial resistance - the increasing failure of antibiotics and other life-saving drugs to treat diseases. It's a globa...

What role can the livestock sector play?

30/11/2018

The livestock sector is a key contributor to global warming. The world's population is growing, and as a result, we will need to feed more and more people.