For information related to animal production, health and livestock products please visit the FAO Animal Production and Health Division as well as the Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division Web sites.

These Web sites also feature information, case studies, and good practices about pig and poultry production systems, and cover meat and meat products as well as milk and diary products.

Users can also access information relative to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, rinderpest and other transboundary animal diseases. An extensive collection of FAO publications and livestock maps are also available on-line (e.g. the "Gridded Livestock of the World" and Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas).

For further information please contact: Livestock, Animal Production and Health, but for statistics about Livestock please contact: FAOSTAT.