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This veterinary workforce strategy will facilitate the assessment of veterinary workforce needs in the country. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducts a validation workshop starting today to gather inputs from multi-stakeholders for the developed Veterinary Service Directorate (VSD) workforce strategy, in order to make necessary corrections...

    N E W   P U B L I C A T I O N Veterinary laboratory testing protocols for priority zoonotic diseases in Africa   Animal health laboratories play a crucial role in veterinary disease diagnosis and surveillance for the prevention and control of transboundary animal diseases, including those of economic impact...

  FAO promotes advocacy sessions to prevent zoonoses resulting from handling, trade and consumption of bushmeat. In Ghana, bushmeat trade is an important economic activity, estimated at over USD 350 million annually. Unregulated trade and exploitation of wild animals is a risk factors for the emergence and spread of diseases (OIE, 2021),...

Responding to climate change at landscape scales. Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses are the third largest contributor to GHG emissions after Energy and Industry emitting about 22% of all global emissions of greenhouse gases emissions from anthropogenic sources. Data on GHG emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) activities...

More efforts need to be done to ensure that the One Health Policy is passed by Parliament On 3 November, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its partner WHO marked the commemoration of International One Health Day with the engagement of individuals, governments and organisations from different...