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Highlights: Rapidly increasing human population and food animal populations are correlated with emergence of new zoonotic infectious diseases. Dependence on a few species of plants and animals...

This brief is important for policymakers, researchers, animal health service providers, and agricultural stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries. Crucial insights are provided into drivers of antimicrobial misuse...

This Regional Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Monitoring and Surveillance Guidelines Volume 1 provides guidance in the development of AMR surveillance plan for food-borne bacteria, underscoring the key elements...

Following the 27th Tripartite Annual Executive Meeting, the FAO Programme Committee in its 130th session, March 2021, requested the joint development, by the Tripartite (FAO/WHO/WOAH) and others...

The FAO food safety foresight programme is geared towards the proactive identification, evaluation and prioritization of emerging trends and drivers within and around agrifood systems that can have...

The AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform aims to catalyse a global movement for action against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by fostering cooperation between a diverse range of stakeholders at all...

The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic...

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute have published a new brief (Jul 2022) that puts forward seven key areas and 18 practical actions that governments...

The report showcases ten food-focused initiatives that have taken action to promote human, ecological, and animal health and well-being. Case studies of initiatives in Brazil, Canada, France...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the most urgent global health challenges of our time. AMR can develop with each use of an antimicrobial, regardless of the setting. The ongoing...