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MeetingMeeting documentProvisional Agenda of the International Meeting on Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest
Rome, Italy. 20-22 January 2016
2016Also available in:
No results found.FAO, with the support of the OIE, is holding an International Meeting (20 -22 January 2016, Rome) of countries that are still storing RVCM in their laboratories along with selected neighbouring countries. The overall purpose of the meeting is to commit countries to destroy their stocks of virus or arrange for its relocation to a FAO-OIE RHF. -
ProjectFactsheetReinforcing global freedom from rinderpest - MTF/GLO/733/OIE 2019
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No results found.In the 1980s, rinderpest killed millions of cattle and wild ruminants across Africa, causing devastating consequences for farmers and pastoralists in some of the world’s poorest rural areas. The eradication of rinderpest in 2011 led to considerable socioeconomic effects –the protection of tens of millions of livestock, which contribute to safeguarding biodiversity and the resilience of ecological systems, as well as an estimated USD 920 million in annual economic benefits for Africa alone. However, dozens of laboratories in at least 36 countries still hold Rinderpest Virus-Containing Material (RVCM), posing a serious threat of inadvertent or malicious release. To help maintain global freedom from rinderpest, this project aimed to minimize the number of laboratories holding RVCM and increase the capacity of countries to rapidly respond to, and recover from the re-emergence of the disease. -
MeetingMeeting documentSummary report of the meeting "Maintaining global freedom from rinderpest
Regional meeting for Africa, 5-6 August 2015 (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt)
2015Also available in:
No results found.The official declarations of global freedom from rinderpest were made during meetings at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 2011. At these historical celebrations, the Member States recommended that every country should destroy their stocks of rinderpest virus-containing material (RVCM) or send them to a Rinderpest Holding Facility (RHF) for safe keeping. To accelerate the process of rinderpest virus destruct ion and sequestration, FAO held on 5-6 August 2015, a regional meeting for Africa “Maintaining Global Rinderpest Freedom” in Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt. Nine African countries attended the meeting together with the OIE, the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and invited experts.
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BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
2021Also available in:
No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018. -
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.
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Book (stand-alone)ProceedingsLessons learned from the eradication of rinderpest for controlling other transboundary animal diseases
GREP Symposium and High-Level Meeting, 12-15 October 2010
2012Also available in:
No results found.A world without rinderpest has been a long-awaited goal since the seminal work by G. Lancisi in early XVIII century. Early reports of simple hygienic measures, such as quarantine and slaughter, stopping the transmission of infection and eradicating the disease at the local level showed that global eradication should be possible. More difficult to achieve, however, were control and eradication where cattle populations were large and mobile and their owners averse to quarantine and slaughter. To c ombat rinderpest in these populations, vaccines were developed and immediately seen to offer another weapon in the drive towards eradication. For global eradication, this meant coordination across those regions of the world where the virus was endemic: Eurasia and Africa. The year targeted for achieving eradication was 2010. The global coordination provided by the FAO Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme (GREP) orchestrated the efforts and ideas of regional organizations, national veterinary services and individuals alike, assisting them in identifying areas of high disease risk or uncertainty, and focusing improved vaccine delivery and disease surveillance efforts on these often inaccessible areas.Considering the impact of rinderpest eradication on food security in many countries, and the current rinderpest epidemiological situation, in line with the GREP deadline of 2010, the Director-General of FAO reviewed the situation on the occasion of World Food Day on 15 October 201 0. His statement announced the “end of FAO’s rinderpest field operations”, thereby declaring that FAO considered rinderpest to be eradicated from livestock and wildlife (while recognizing the ongoing formal process of evidence-based review by a Joint FAO/OIE Committee, leading to simultaneous declarations of global freedom from rinderpest by both organizations in mid-2011).As one of the final acts of coordination against rinderpest, the GREP Secretariat organized the GREP Symposium (13 t o 14 October 2010). The following proceedings bring together papers and discussions from the organizations and people who brought about this “greatest achievement ever”, their reviews of what went well and of what did not, and their views on the way forward.