This meeting is a Statutory Body of FAO, organized regularly for almost 50 years by FAO in collaboration with regional institutions. Since 1994, these meetings have been part of the activities of the working group FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA on agricultural and livestock [...]

The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock aims at catalyzing multi-stakeholder action to improve the livestock sector’s use of natural resources whilst ensuring its contribution to food security and livelihoods. To be sustainable, livestock sector growth needs to simultaneously address key environmental, [...]

The Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) is a joint initiative of FAO and OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health), with the expected participation of WHO for the zoonoses, to achieve the prevention, detection and [...]

The Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources was established by the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in 1997. The Secretariat of the ITWG AnGR lies with the Animal Production and Health Division (NSA) in FAO Headquarters. The role [...]

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international expert scientific committee that is administered jointly by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO). Its areas of work are: Risk assessment/safety evaluation of Food additives (intentionally added); Processing aids [...]

The LEAP Partnership was founded in 2012 as a result of a consultative process between FAO’s Animal Production and Health Division with three stakeholder groups (governments, private sector and civil society). The overarching goal of this initiative is to contribute to [...]