News archive
LOGin: Interview with Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General on the One Health Initiative
28/06/2023
LOGin is a feature interview series regularly organized by the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG). Through LOGin, we meet with FAO’s core leadership and discuss a corporate initiative. This month, we met Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General, to [...]
Autoridades sanitarias centrales y regionales del SAG de Chile, se capacitan en políticas vinculadas a RAM en piensos medicados
15/06/2023
Encuentro virtual de capacitación brindó amplia comprensión de los objetivos expresados en los Puntos de Referencia aplicados en proceso de autoevaluación
El Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG) de Chile, a fines de 2022 aplicó la metodología FAO para la autoevaluación de [...]
Colombia y Bolivia desde las normas del Codex para la RAM, se unen a conmemorar el DMIA
14/06/2023
Proyecto ACT enfatiza la inocuidad de alimentos como parte esencial de la contención y vigilancia de la RAM
Por tercer año consecutivo, las organizaciones internacionales y regionales CCLAC, IICA, FAO, OIRSA y OPS/PANAFTOSA se unieron para celebrar el Día Mundial de [...]
The Quadripartite announces the rebranding of the global annual awareness campaign on antimicrobial resistance
01/06/2023
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) will now be World AMR Awareness Week.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major global threat across human, animal, plant, food, and environmental sectors. In 2019, it was estimated that almost 5 million deaths were associated with [...]
ACT project in Nepal / Training on implementation of Codex antimicrobial resistance standards
30/05/2023
FAO Nepal in collaboration with the Department of Food Technology and Quality Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development conducted a training of trainers on the implementation of Codex standards to contain and reduce foodborne antimicrobial resistance...
Shedding light on the AMR Partnership Platform at the 90th Annual General Session of the World Assembly of Delegates of WOAH
29/05/2023
The AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform was featured at the 90th Annual General Session of the World Assembly of Delegates of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) that was held in person in Paris on May 21–25.
With more than 1,000 participants, [...]
Autoridades Sanitarias del Perú, evalúan sus capacidades para contener la RAM en el ámbito de piensos medicados
24/05/2023
SENASA y SANIPES participaron en mesa técnica revisando las políticas nacionales de piensos medicados y su gobernanza, mediante herramienta FAO
En 2022 FAO diseñó una metodología para autoevaluar las capacidades nacionales existentes para la contención de la RAM en el ámbito [...]
Apply to be a member of the Quadripartite Working Group on Youth Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Call for expressions of interest
18/05/2023
The Quadripartite agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE) -- are pleased to announce [...]
ACT project: Cambodia sets priorities to combat AMR
17/05/2023
A roadmap workshop took place on 27 April 2023 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia bringing together all relevant stakeholders to identify their priorities for addressing foodborne antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as part of the “Action to support implementation of Codex AMR (ACT)” [...]
Red GOARN fortalece la cooperación regional y avanza en enfoque Una Salud.
05/05/2023
En Panamá, encuentro de Red mundial aborda la importancia de fortalecer la red regional en las Américas y explorar colaboraciones en el marco del enfoque One Health.
Del 2 al 4 de mayo del 2023 en Ciudad de Panamá, FAO fue [...]