18th update on African swine fever activities at FAO

GLOBAL

All presentations of GF-TADs webinar on African swine fever: An unprecedented global threat – A challenge to livelihoods, food security and biodiversity held on 26-30 October are available as PDF.

EUROPE

The 16th meeting of the Standing Group of Experts for ASF (SGE ASF 16) under GF-TADs took place online on the morning of 23 Nov. It was attended by 70 participants from 28 European countries that updated on their epi situation and COVID-19 related challenges. All presentations are already uploaded.

FAO ongoing and upcoming activities and initiatives in Europe are summarized in a PowerPoint presentation.

FAO contributed to an awareness article on ASF control challenges in Europe.

ASIA

FAO Cambodia supported a series of training courses on ASF in Svay Rieng (25-26 Nov 2020) and Takeo (30 Nov - 1 Dec 2020) provinces targeting provincial/district offices. A national training-of-trainers (TOT) is planned in Kampong province (22-25 Dec 2020)

FAO Myanmar is supporting a virtual training course on ASF detection and emergency response from 22 Dec 2020 to 12 Jan 2021

FAO organized virtual training on risk communication for ASF (15-16 Dec 2020)

The animation video on farm biosecurity (Be a champion farmer) has been translated into 4 local languages for Indonesia, as well as Khmer and Lao.

AMERICAS

A workshop on contingency plan preparation for the Caribbean Countries was organized in Dec 2020.

ASF Preparedness Workshops were organized with the task forces teams of Ecuador, Chile, Dominican Republic, Panama and El Salvador (Dec 2020)

A Webinar on biosafety disposal of animal carcasses after natural disasters was organized together with the OIRSA for the Central American countries (December 2020)