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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEcosystem services assessment in livestock agroecosystems 2025
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No results found.This document highlights the crucial role of livestock agroecosystems in rural development, landscape management, and food security, while noting that public debate often focuses mainly on negative aspects such as environmental impacts, human health, and animal welfare. These concerns tend to overshadow the multiple benefits livestock systems provide to society.Framed through the concept of ecosystem services, the guide outlines four categories of benefits that livestock agroecosystems deliver to human well-being:- Provisioning services, including the production of food and fibre.- Regulating services, such as climate and air quality control, water management, disease regulation, pollination, and natural hazard mitigation.- Cultural services, encompassing recreational, aesthetic, educational, social, and spiritual values.- Supporting services, including soil formation, photosynthesis, and water and nutrient cycling.Achieving truly sustainable livestock production requires recognizing and systematically assessing these services. To support this, the guide calls for a harmonized international approach. It recommends the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) as a standardized framework for identifying and categorizing ecosystem services, and proposes a five-step roadmap to ensure robust and transparent valuation processes that generate reliable evidence for policy and management.Integrating biophysical, socio-cultural, economic, and modelling valuation methods, the guide serves as a first step toward consistent international guidance. It provides both conceptual foundations and practical approaches to better assess, promote, and sustain the contributions of livestock agroecosystems to global sustainability. -
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureAgricultural Ecosystem-based Solutions - Introduction 2025
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No results found.This two-lesson course explores Agricultural Ecosystem-based Solutions (AgEbS) as a means to increase agricultural productivity while preserving and restoring vital ecosystem services. It covers the principles of AgEbS, its role in enhancing production efficiency, and introduces the AgEbS tool to help apply these solutions effectively. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of how AgEbS can address the environmental challenges posed by rising agricultural demands
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BookletTechnical report2nd Meeting of Global Coordination Committee on Foot and Mouth Disease (GCC-FMD)
Report of the virtual meeting, 12 April 2022
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No results found.The second meeting of the GCC-FMD was organized virtually under the umbrella of the GF-TADs, by its FMD Working Group (WG) on 12 April 2022. The participants included representatives of 11 GCC-FMD Standing Member organizations, and representatives from the FAO and OIE regional offices, the representatives from FAO/WOAH regional Reference Centres, and the head of the FAO/WOAH World Reference Laboratory for FMD (WRLFMD, The Pirbright Institute, UK). The FMD-WG, is looking to this committee to guide in the final phase of the implementation of the FAO/WOAH Global FMD Control Strategy, through sharing information and experiences, improving the alignment and coordination of regional initiatives with the FAO/WOAH Global FMD control strategy and eventually developing a 5-year global FMD action plan. The overall purpose of the GCC-FMD is to: (i) Facilitate the implementation of the Global strategy as it is entering the final phase of its implementation; (ii) Enhance information exchange and coordination at regional level; (iii) Enable replication of success across regions. The GCC-FMD Chair (PANAFTOSA) and Co-chair (GFRA), Mr. Jean Philippe Dop, WOAH Deputy Director General and Mr. Keith Sumption, FAO Chief Veterinary Officer graced the opening session of the second meeting of the GCC-FMD. During this meeting, Standing members’ inputs will be sought to find solutions to the challenges for FMD control that are common across regions. Current and planned initiatives under the themes of regional governance, advocacy, public private partnerships (PPP) and technical issues will be discussed to guide the future action plan. -
Book (series)Flagship2020年世界森林状况
森林、生物多样性与人类
2020联合国生物多样性十年（2011-2020）即将到期，各国政府正着手准备采用2020年后全球生物多样性框架。值此之际，本版《世界森林状况》（SOFO）考察了森林以及利用和管理森林的人类对保护和可持续利用生物多样性所做的贡献。森林仅占全球陆地面积略高于30％，然而却为绝大多数科学上已知的陆生动植物提供了栖息地。不幸的是，森林及其所蕴含的生物多样性继续受到来自将林地转为农地或对其不可持续攫取的威胁，而且其中大部分都是非法行为。《2020年世界森林状况》评估了迄今为止在实现与森林生物多样性有关的全球目标和具体目标方面的进展，并从保护和可持续发展成果两方面考察了政策、行动和方法的有效性。报告中一系列案例研究提供了创新实践的例子，这些实践结合了森林生物多样性的保护和可持续利用，创造了实现人类和地球之间平衡的解决方案。 -
Book (stand-alone)Policy briefAfrica Sustainable Livestock 2050 (ASL) - Livestock, health, livelihoods and the environment in Ethiopia. An integrated analysis 2019
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No results found.This report represents an attempt to operationalize the “One-Health” concept in Ethiopia. It is the result of an open and continuous multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary dialogue, guided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in collaboration with the Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Along this consultative process, national stakeholders have innovated under different perspectives. The report provides information on the methodology used to measure the returns of policies and investments aimed at tackling zoonotic diseases, whose outbreaks can have major negative impact on society, such as bovine tuberculosis and anthrax. What is possibly most valuable is that this report represents a key milestone in a longer journey we have all embarked on: we have agreed to build on this report to continue an open and informed multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary dialogue about the long-term dynamics of the livestock sector in Ethiopia. Our objective is to appreciate its trends and likely future impacts on society in order to design and implement informed policies and investments today, which will ensure a sustainable development trajectory of the livestock sector in this country in the long-term, for the benefits of the future generations.