West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic, emerging mosquito-borne virus which can cause severe disease in the form of encephalitis and acute flaccid paralysis in humans. In Assam...

Highlights Increasing wildlife–livestock interactions enhance opportunities for pathogen transmission and biodiversity erosion. This increases the risk of emerging diseases in wildlife, livestock, and humans. Biosecurity measures...

The FAO platform’s features include: cloud-based platform with ability to link to other data platforms from public health, animal health, and environmental sectors. This will help users...

This is the first issue of the Scientific and Technical Review that focuses on Foresight and the broad range of external factors that are likely to affect, and be affected by, Veterinary Services, both...

Although currently available data indicate that Africa has the lowest usage of antimicrobials in animals in the world (adjusted by animal biomass), data show a high prevalence of antimicrobial...

African swine fever (ASF) is a highly fatal disease of pigs. It is a threat to the pig industry as it lowers production and significantly impacts on livelihoods. ASF has...

Growth in the livestock sector is associated with heightened risk for epidemic diseases. The increasing spillover of new diseases from wildlife is being driven by wide-scale anthropogenic changes allowing for more...

Traditional food marketsi , rather than supermarkets, are the norm in many parts of the world. Such markets form part of the social fabric of communities and are a main...

The European Commission aims to tackle the FNS challenge with research and innovation (R&I) policies designed to future-proof our food systems so that they can become more...

The Nairobi pork food system is a growing livestock sub-sector which serves as a source of food and livelihood to its inhabitants. This study mapped Nairobi’s pork value chains...