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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureEmergency preparedness for aquatic disease outbreaks 2025
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No results found.This course offers an overview of diseases affecting aquatic organisms, emphasizing the importance of preparedness for effective prevention, management, and control. It also introduces the role of disease outbreak investigation and diagnostics for aquatic disease. -
Book (series)Technical studyMpox case detection in animals
A guide to epidemiological and laboratory investigations
2025Also available in:
No results found.Mpox, caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), is a zoonotic disease believed to be maintained in the wild by African rodents and transmissible to a range of mammals, particularly primates such as apes, monkeys and humans. Historically endemic to Central and West Africa, mpox has seen an increase in the scale and frequency of human outbreaks in recent years, extending beyond its traditional range. Zoonotic transmission accounts for a proportion of human cases, highlighting the need for a One Health approach to prevent spillover through upstream interventions. This FAO guide offers practical tools for veterinarians, wildlife professionals, epidemiologists, laboratory personnel, animal health authorities and other stakeholders to detect, investigate and manage mpox in animals. It provides guidance on case definitions, outbreak investigation, specimen collection, laboratory testing, biosafety and biosecurity precautions, and results reporting. The guide also promotes a One Health approach, emphasizing the need for cross-sectoral collaboration and community engagement to manage the disease risk at the human–animal–environmental interface. It also outlines strategies for enhancing long-term surveillance and preparedness, especially in high-risk settings. Recognizing the current knowledge gaps around mpox ecology and the limited surveillance and diagnostic capacities in many endemic and at-risk countries, the guide promotes a flexible, risk-based approach that can be adapted to local contexts. It aims to strengthen capacities for mpox early detection and response in animal populations, contribute to global health security and enhance a coordinated One Health framework to manage other zoonotic threats at their animal sources. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookGF-TADs Strategy for 2021–2025
Enhancing control of transboundary animal diseases for global health
2021Also available in:
No results found.Since 2004, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have cooperated in the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) to reduce the threat from transboundary animal diseases (TADs) to food security, livelihoods and safe trade. The GF-TADs is a coordination mechanism established to safeguard its Members from repeated incursions of infectious animal disease epidemics, to enhance safe trade in animals and animal products, and to improve food and nutrition security by reducing the damaging effects of TADs. To reach these long-term goals, the GF-TADs Strategy for 2021−2025 aims to enhance the control of TADs through the establishment of priority TADs strategies at the regional and sub-regional level, by developing the capacity to prevent and control TADs, and by improving the sustainability of priority TADs strategies through multi-disciplinary partnerships. The ultimate goals of the global strategy are to improve food security and nutrition, to reduce poverty and to enhance safe trade in livestock and animal products by reducing repeated incursions and the further spread of infectious disease epidemics. The GF-TADs Strategy was developed through a ‘Theory of Change’ model and is described as a series of objectives. Chapters describe the management of the GF-TADs Strategy, resource mobilization and a framework for monitoring and evaluation, with clear indicators. In addition, the strategy provides an overview of the GF-TADs governance model and its global priority diseases.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookThe future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges 2017
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No results found.What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. “Business as usual” is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies, and natural resources management are necessary. The present study was undertaken for the quadrennial review of FAO’s strategic framework and for the preparation of the Organization Medium-Term plan 2018-2021. -
BookletHigh-profileFAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 2022The FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 was endorsed by FAO Council in June 2022. This new strategy replaces the previous strategy from 2017 to better FAO's climate action with the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, and other FAO strategies that have been developed since then. The Strategy was elaborated following an inclusive process of consultation with FAO Members, FAO staff from headquarters and decentralized offices, as well as external partners. It articulates FAO's vision for agrifood systems by 2050, around three main pillars of action: at global and regional level, at country level, and at local level. The Strategy also encourages key guiding principles for action, such as science and innovation, inclusiveness, partnerships, and access to finance.