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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)The Emergency Sequence: What FAO Does - How FAO Does It: Phase four: Impact and immediate needs assessment
Phase Four - Immediate Needs Asessment
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Policy briefAfrica Sustainable Livestock 2050: Livestock and viral emerging infectious diseases 2022
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No results found.A majority of virus species capable of infecting humans are zoonotic and have wildlife and/or arthropod reservoirs. The current narrative on preventing the next pandemic thus stresses the role of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases. The emphasis on wildlife, while warranted, appears to underappreciate the role livestock plays in the emergence and spread of virus diseases affecting humans. Although livestock are reservoir hosts for a minority of the zoonotic virus species, they may be susceptible to infection and thereby act as bridge-hosts. Given the frequency of livestock-wildlife and subsequent livestock-human interactions, indirect transmission of zoonotic viruses from wildlife to humans via livestock provides and important pathway for disease emergence. This paper examines extent to which mammalian livestock have been found to be susceptible to infection with zoonotic viruses and thereby have the potential to contribute to within and cross species virus propagation. Evidence of infection in mammalian genera representing the main livestock species could be found for close to half (46.1%) of the 267 zoonotic virus species in our dataset. A better understanding of multi-host virus sharing pathways is needed to support efforts to mitigate EIZD threats. -
Book (stand-alone)Shaping sustainable agrifood futures: pre-emerging and emerging technologies and innovations for impact
An extended global foresight report with regional and stakeholders' insights
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No results found.FAO’s Office of Innovation is working with CIRAD (International Cooperation Centre of Agricultural Research for Development) and other partners on an FAO initiative on foresight on pre-emerging and emerging agrifood technologies and innovations, aligned with UN 2.0 and The Future of Food and Agriculture 2022: engaging all key actors of agrifood innovation systems in the foresight on pre-emerging and emerging technologies and innovations (PETIAS) to better prepare for alternative futures, feeding it into anticipatory action, and convening the global community for constructive multilateral dialogue and knowledge exchange. The aim is to support policymakers, investors and innovation actors in their approaches and decision making.The study assesses a selection of technologies and innovations, which potentially could be of paramount importance in addressing agrifood challenges until 2050, as well as the most important trends and drivers that will influence the emergence of agrifood PETIAS and their triggers of change, including some regional aspects and stakeholders' perspectives. The goal is also to build plausible future scenarios for the evolvement of the PETIAS and innovation process governance in the future with the time horizon of 2050 to inform future-oriented policymaking.The report is built with inputs from a multistakeholder Delphi survey, online and in presence workshops with experts and stakeholders, the FAO FSN Forum, as well as regional foresight exercises (Latin America and Central Asia and Caucasus).
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