Public Health
Issue paper
2021
Thinking ahead: Drought resilience and COVID-19
COVID-19 is a defining moment for strengthening drought resilience of society and managing ecosystems more sustainably. Both recent and historical [...]
Report
2021
Africa regional overview of food security and nutrition 2020. Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
Africa is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets to end hunger and ensure access [...]
Report
2021
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2020. Affordable healthy diets to address all forms of malnutrition for better health
This report consists of two main sections: 1) a situation analysis of Sustainable Development Goal 2 Target 2.1 (to end [...]
Briefs
2021
COVID-19 and animals: Information on risk mitigation measures for livestock and agricultural professionals
In response to the growing concern caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 variant strain, FAO has prepared this document to raise [...]
Issue paper
2020
Preventing the next zoonotic pandemic. Strengthening and extending the One Health approach to avert pandemics of animal origin in the region
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, probably originated from an animal source, similar to 60 percent of all human infectious [...]
Briefs
2020
Case study: the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing’s Xinfadi Market and its impact on the food supply chain
There were seven confirmed local cases of COVID-19 in Beijing on 11 and 12 June 2020. Epidemiological investigations confirmed that [...]
Issue paper
2020
Series: The agrifood system and the challenges of COVID-19. The role of wholesale markets in the pandemic: challenges and opportunities
The publication describes and analyzes the behaviour of wholesale supplies during a health crisis. Address their situation and perspectives in [...]
Issue paper
2020
Exposure of humans or animals to SARS-CoV-2 from wild, livestock, companion and aquatic animals
Understanding the risk of exposure of humans or animals to SARS-CoV-2 from animals and their products is essential for containing [...]
Briefs
2020
Exposure of humans or animals to SARS-CoV-2 from wild, livestock, companion and aquatic animals. Qualitative exposure assessment – Summary
SARS-CoV-2 is an emerging virus currently causing a large epidemic of COVID-19. Countries have asked FAO to provide guidance on [...]
Briefs
2020
Build Back Better in a post COVID-19 world: Reducing future wildlife-borne spillover of disease to humans
We need to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic, to better understand the root causes of zoonotic diseases, in order to [...]
Issue paper
2020
The COVID-19 challenge: Zoonotic diseases and wildlife. Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management's four guiding principles to reduce risk from zoonotic diseases
The far-reaching impacts of COVID-19 on the entire planet have mobilized numerous calls to prevent similar pandemics in the future. [...]
Issue paper
2020
FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme
The COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing human health and disrupting the food systems that are the foundations of health. Unless we take immediate action, we could [...]
Briefs
2020
One Health legislation: Contributing to pandemic prevention through law
It is increasingly recognized that human, plant and animal health, environmental health and food security are inter-linked and that the [...]
Briefs
2020
Food system policy priorities and programmatic actions for healthy diets in the context of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has created supply and demand shocks in the food systems, disproportionately affecting the poor and nutritionally vulnerable [...]
Briefs
2020
Global emergence of infectious diseases: links with wild meat consumption, ecosystem disruption, habitat degradation and biodiversity loss
This policy brief focuses on the topic of global emergence of infectious diseases and its links with consumption of wild [...]
Briefs
2020
Food systems and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Health risks, safety of workers and food safety
In this new issue of the bulletin, we analyse health risks to people involved in the food system value chain [...]
Briefs
2020
COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for competent authorities responsible for national food safety control systems
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presents an exceptional and unprecedented challenge for competent authorities with responsibilities for national food safety control [...]
Briefs
2020
Integrated agriculture water management and health
This policy brief reviews on going challenges and proposes recommendations on integrated water resources management approach that embraces the value [...]
Briefs
2020
Identifying and addressing the threats against food recovery and redistribution
Many communities and vulnerable individuals rely on foodbanks and other food recovery and redistribution charities to ensure they have access [...]
Briefs
2020
Migrant workers and the COVID-19 pandemic
The policy brief reviews the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants working in agri-food systems and their families in [...]
Briefs
2017
Controlling highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Ghana
Livestock and poultry-keeping are crucial to the farming and livelihood systems of Ghana. In May 2015, outbreaks of highly pathogenic [...]
Issue paper
2003
Mitigating the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Food Security and Rural Poverty
The AIDS epidemic is challenging all aspects of the development agenda. Many of the premises on which development interventions are [...]