Pontianak, The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched a programme to assist smallholder farmers in West Kalimantan to...

The New Year 2019 brings FAO ECTAD to the final year of its Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT-2) project in Indonesia. But, efforts to prevent and control transboundary animal diseases will...

FAO’s Regional Rice Initiative (RRI) offers new practices for sustainable production.  Amarudin (47) sits on the embankment, looking across the rice paddy in front of him. He smiles proudly, pointing to...

Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara. The Ministry of Agriculture, through the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services (DGLAHS), is taking immediate actions to control the current rabies outbreak in...

Kupang,  East Nusa Tenggara The Ministry of Agriculture and provincial authorities have been working with over 16,000 smallholders since 2013, in NTT and NTB provinces to help them adapt to climate...

In 2017, the Avian Influenza virus type H9N2, which does not harm humans but can reduce poultry productivity, also known as Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI), attacked the major poultry...

The Field Epidemiology Training Program for Veterinarians in Indonesia (FETPV / PELVI - Program Epidemiologi Lapangan Veteriner Indonesia) concluded its third stakeholder meeting recently. The meeting aimed to update stakeholders...

Through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in Indonesia together with the Directorate of Animal Health (DAH), Ministry of Agriculture made four oral presentations and nine poster presentations...

FAO ECTAD (Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases) has appealed to human and animal health professionals to collaborate in combating the rising global threat of AMR.  The statement was delivered...

The Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...

FAO through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in Indonesia together with the Ministry of Agriculture have reaffirmed their commitment to reduce and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The...

Over the past 30 years, the world has been facing the emergence of new emerging infectious diseases (EID) including zoonoses. Zoonoses are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to...

# FAO ECTAD-EPT2 with the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services successfully conduct Zoonotic Disease Action Package/ZDAP Meetings in Bali, 5-6 November 2018   As an integral part of the...

Permanent Representations of eight member countries to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) sent delegates on a field visit to Indonesia. The mission met with Government Representatives in...

After a lengthy consultation and discussion process throughout 2018, the Directorate of Animal Health of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), together with FAO ECTAD Indonesia and the Association of Indonesian...

More than 70 000 people to restore their food production for the long run

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) raised the issue of African Swine Fever (ASF) that is currently spreading in China, in a plenary session at the...

Following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Palu, Central Sulawesi, on 28 September, FAO has been working to provide targeted, technical assistance in support of the government-led response. The...

Jakarta, Indonesia – To reduce fire risk and stop enormous amount of carbon from being emitted from the soil into the atmosphere, Indonesia is rewetting over two million hectares of...

Evidence continues to point to a rise in world hunger in recent years. New data suggest the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past...