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MoA and FAO Promote Antimicrobial Residue-Free Poultry Products
MoA and FAO Promote Antimicrobial Residue-Free Poultry Products
22/11/2022
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) Indonesia, in collaboration with Livestock and Animal Health Services for Lampung Province, Food Security, Agriculture and Fisheries Services for Metro City, FAO, and Lampung Layer Farmer Association (PPN) socialize the consumption of antimicrobial...
New $250 million USAID grant will boost FAO’s efforts to strengthen global health security and agrifood systems
26/10/2022

FAO-USAID long-standing partnership continues to increase the capacity of animal health systems to prevent, prepare and respond to health threats and address antimicrobial resistance

FAO in Asia-Pacific calls for improvements to early warning systems as concerns grow over evolving avian influenza and potential threat to humans
10/12/2021
Call to action as cases of avian influenza are rising globally
FAO promotes awareness and prudent use of antimicrobials in Asia-Pacific during Word Antimicrobial Awareness Week
07/12/2021

Summary of the 2021 Word Antimicrobial Awareness Week commemoration in Asia and the Pacific region

ASEAN-Australia-FAO strengthening regional coordination to avert pandemics of animal origin
27/10/2021
ASEAN announced the launching of the ASEAN-Australia-FAO regional technical assistance project during the forty-third ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) Meeting
FAO’s Asia-Pacific Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases prepares five-year plan to be ready for the next wave of zoonotic diseases
14/05/2021
The multi-disciplinary team at FAO ECTAD is convening a series of meetings to plan out the next five years of its programme in Asia and the Pacific
Thai Swine Raisers Association of Thailand recognizes the work of FAO ECTAD Global Manager on African swine fever
31/12/2020
The FAO ECTAD Global Manager Wantanee Kalpravidh was awarded an honorary plaque from the Swine Raisers Association of Thailand
Staying on top of African Swine Fever in Asia-Pacific – despite a human pandemic
21/05/2020

FAO ECTAD is launching its first online training course on ASF preparedness involving more than 400 animal health practitioners from 19 countries in Asia and the Pacific region

Boosting biosecurity and border measures to control African swine fever in Asia
31/07/2019

Experts in animal health and national authorities from countries began a meeting in Tokyo, Japan to find solutions to prevent further ASF spread adapted to the Asian context.

In the Year of the Pig, UN’s FAO urges safer practices in livestock trade across the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
05/02/2019

FAO has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks.

Improving poultry health and management in three high-risk villages in Luangprabang, Lao PDR
15/01/2019

Lao PDR's poultry producer groups to study the community poultry flock health management approach and associated disease risk reduction at the Puparn Royal Development Study Centre in northeast Thailand

South Asian countries to strengthen surveillance and epidemiology capacity in response to transboundary and other animal diseases
04/10/2018
FAO is supporting SAARC Member States in capacity building of laboratories, epidemiological competency and critical mass of specialists belonging to global, regional and national networks. 
FAO supports ASEAN initiative in the establishment of a Coordinating Centre for Animal Health and Zoonoses
07/10/2016

The establishment of ACCAHZ reinforces ASEAN’s regional commitment to take a collaborative approach in tackling possible future threats of zoonoses and managing related crises