FAO in Indonesia

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03 March 2018
In preventing and controlling recurring and cross-sectoral zoonotic diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID), the ‘One Health’ approach forms the basis of the strategy and acts as the framework for planning EID communication. This is what the Director General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) represented...
21 February 2018
  A decline in chicken egg production has hit commercial poultry farmers all over Indonesia. Many of them claim that the decline in egg laying has reached over 40%. They suspect that this condition is caused by H9N2 Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) and Inclusion Body Hepatitis (IBH) outbreaks, which have...
12 February 2018
  Tulus Hadi Wardoyo (67) was busy counting the cash from the sale of chickens that day. As an elder of the Terban Market Poultry Traders Community, Yogyakarta, he understands that healthy and disease-free- chickens will bring profit to the sellers like him. “The trade in chickens sold in this market is...
12 January 2018
  Climate change is affecting the livelihoods and food security of rural people around the world. However, when it comes to making policies to address climate change impacts, national decision-makers often do not have access to crucial evidence of climate change at the local level. Furthermore, it is common for projects...
03 January 2018
Foods made from the meat and eggs of ducks are becoming more popular nowadays. The demand for these products has continued to intensify over the last 10 years. This has resulted in a significant growth of enterprises which raise ducks for consumption. With increased numbers of poorly managed commercial duck...