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Book (stand-alone)Manual / guideProgressive pathway for emergency preparedness
Self-assessment user guide 2025
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No results found.The Progressive pathway for emergency preparedness (PPEP) self-assessment user guide is a comprehensive guide that helps national authorities evaluate and improve their emergency preparedness for agrifood emergencies. The guide introduces the PPEP, a voluntary, multistage process that incorporates a self-assessment as a key component. The handbook outlines seven core elements of emergency preparedness (governance, communication, planning, resourcing, training, exercising and continuous improvement), each with specific indicators to assess a country's emergency preparedness status. The guide also introduces the tools for structured evaluation and visual reporting. These tools enable countries to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize them and collaborate with FAO and regional partners to build resilient emergency management systems. -
ProjectFactsheetAfrican Swine Fever Emergency Preparedness in Latin America and The Caribbean - TCP/RLA/3729 2022
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African swine fever ( is a viral disease with potentially serious implications for global trade and food safety The virus remains active for long periods of time in infected blood, faeces and tissues, and there is currently no vaccine, which makes it difficult to contain the disease and impossible to control it The disease has a major impact on countries, regions and subregions generating the following i job losses ;;( loss of export markets ;;( animal mortality ;;( resource scarcity among low income populations ;;( loss of animal protein sources and ( reduction of vulnerable families’ economic capacity In the Americas there are two modalities of pig production rural and industrial Rural production is carried out by smallholder farmers, who use low level technologies and keep small numbers of animals that transform grass, local crops and household waste into animal protein This is based mainly on domestic animal husbandry, with few animals on each farm, but spread over large geographical areas In these farms, the lack of veterinary care, health control, identification and traceability poses a major risk for the introduction of ASF In contrast, industrial pig production employs specialized technologies with large numbers of animals, veterinary assistance and a well organized slaughter and marketing chain An ASF outbreak would have a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural inhabitants who raise pigs as a source of additional income Moreover, the costs of control measures, including the culling of infected stock and disinfection of infrastructure and fomites, will diminish resilience in the affected areas After an absence of more than 40 years from Latin America and the Caribbean, the fact that ASF has appeared in the region demonstrates the need for a project to provide tools and tasks to the Official Veterinary Services ( In collaboration with the World Organization for Animal Health ( FAO has created the Standing Group of Experts of the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF TADs) for the Americas. -
DocumentOther documentFirst physical meeting of the FAO Technical Working Group on the Progressive Management Pathway for Improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB TWG 3/2022). Gaeta, Italy 28 June - 01 July 2022. TOOLKIT 5: Emergency Preparedness - Stian Johnsen, Victoria Alday
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