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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetImproving animal health: a key to sustainable livestock production and better human health 2023
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No results found.Improving animal health is imperative for sustainable livestock production, with wider implications for environmental preservation and human nutrition. It is not only about food security but also a step towards safeguarding human health via a One Health approach that unifies strategy that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals, and the environment. Livestock production significantly contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions, with ruminants being major contributors due mainly to the methane they produce. This policy brief underscores the interconnectedness of cattle health, methane emissions, and food security. Improving animal health will curb global warming, advance national climate commitments, bolster livestock adaptation to climate change, and increase the production of animal-sourced food. -
DocumentAnimal Health and Production Improvement Module (AHPIM): An approach to designing and implementing herd health and production programmes in developing countries 1995
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No results found.Reducing lost productivity requires informed decisions by livestock owners and the delivery of appropriate, cost-effective, health and production services. Herd Health and Production Programmes (HHPPs) have been developed for livestock systems with the intention of providing a framework for making sound decisions, implementing actions and measuring impact. In the large-scale and more intensive production systems found in the developed world, HHPPs have been successful and self-sustai ning. Although HHPPs have also been designed for use in the small-scale farming systems typical of developing countries, their application has had only mixed success. Why is this so ? There are of course many technical difficulties in applying HHPPs in a developing-country environment: small herd sizes require special data analysis techniques; lower levels of literacy and numeracy demand different data collection techniques; production targets for low-input/low-output systems are oft en hard to define; and farming systems are usually complex and reflect a myriad of agricultural, economic, cultural and food security considerations. -
Book (stand-alone)FAO/IAEA International Symposium on Applications of Gene-based Technologies for Improving Animal Production and Health in Developing Countries 2004
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No results found.The symposium was held from 6 to 10 October 2003 in Vienna. One hundred and thirty scientists and decision-makers from 60 Member States participated in the Symposium. A total of 44 oral and 33 poster presentations were made. The programme consisted of opening addresses, an opening session to set the scene and four scientific sessions covering, respectively, animal breeding and genetics; animal health; animal nutrition; and environmental, ethical, safety and regulatory aspects of gene-based techn ologies. There were also three panel discussions. In the opening address session, three distinguished speakers (Werner Burkart, DDG and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA; Samuel Jutzi, Director, Animal Production and Health Division, FAO; and James Dargie, Director, FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Applications in Food and Agriculture) presented their views. Mr Burkart stressed the importance of the close relationship between FAO and IAEA for enabling the exploitation and deployment of nuclear technologies in food and agriculture. Mr Jutzi stressed the challenges and opportunities faced by animal agriculture globally, and emphasized the importance and nature of specific and general development policy measures for enhancing the impact of gene-based technologies in animal agriculture in developing countries. Mr Dargie emphasized the need for training, technical support and capacity building in developing countries for enabling the application of gene-based tec hnologies in key areas of the livestock sector.
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