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AMR Network Meeting for East Africa was organized by the FAO in collaboration with the OIE. The meeting brought together 37 participants drawn from the Ministries in charge of agriculture in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan and [...]

Alarmed by the continuing threat of infectious diseases that can spread between animals and humans in Asia and the Pacific, three international organizations have announced they are increasing their coordination to respond more effectively across the region.

The DGLAHS, Ministry of Agriculture together with the FAO ECTAD Indonesia and a number of cross-sectoral partners raise public awareness on the threats of diseases and antimicrobial resistance by providing a Studium Generale public lecture at the UNTB

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today met Denmark’s Minister for the Environment and Food, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, for talks regarding bilateral cooperation, including joint efforts to mitigate the threat of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in food production.

Recognizing the importance of animal feed safety for the production of safe food, the Codex Committee on Residue of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CCRVDF) requested FAO  and WHO  to provide scientific advice and risk management options (such as the establishment of maximum limits) to [...]

Medicated feed is one important route for administering veterinary medicinal products to animals, in particular to animals intended for food production. It can be difficult to administer a veterinary drug to an animal, especially in the case of smaller species typically [...]

Over-prescribing of antibiotics by physicians, veterinarians, dentists and their misuse by farmers result in resistance by the microbes to drugs that were designed to fight them. As a result, human deaths due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are estimated to increase [...]

On the occasion of World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2018, our three organizations, leaders in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), have chosen to speak with one voice. We are calling upon governments to use the “One Health” approach in the fight against AMR, [...]

Les agriculteurs sont essentiels si l'on veut endiguer la propagation de la résistance aux antimicrobiens et notamment celle des pathogènes à l'origine des maladies. Ils peuvent contribuer de manière significative et se révéler particulièrement décisifs en adoptant quotidiennement de bonnes [...]

L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) s'est associée à l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) aujourd'hui pour lancer la Semaine mondiale de la sensibilisation aux antibiotiques (WAAW) dans la région du Proche-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord [...]