FAO is co-leading the implementation of 32 Pandemic Fund projects worth over USD 165 million aimed to boost local and global health security.

FAO's Pandemic Fund project enhances disease surveillance, laboratory capacity, and veterinary workforce development in Central Asia.

Whether it's livestock diseases, crop pests, zoonotic spillovers, or environmental shifts that threaten food production, many crises begin silently.

Across the world, billions depend on the invisible benefits of plants yet rarely recognize them as the life-support networks they are.

Faced with such a complex, multilayered threat, no single discipline or sector can offer a solution. This is why the One Health approach is so urgently needed. 

As temperatures rise, rains become less predictable, and extreme weather strikes more often, plant pests and diseases are spreading in ways not seen before.

Almost 500 professionals from Ukraine’s animal health, public health, food safety, and wildlife sectors were hosted during a comprehensive online One Health training course aimed at strengthening the country’s health systems through cross-sectoral collaboration.

Early warning for plant health means detecting plant pests and diseases at the earliest stage, before they spiral into emergencies.

Spillover events are rarely attributable to a single cause. Instead, they arise from a confluence of factors that is amplified at the interface between humans, animals, and the environment.

In the vast steppes and fertile fields of the Caucasus and Central Asia, what looks like a shimmer on the horizon can be the beginning of disaster: locusts - winged, ravenous, and relentless.

World Zoonoses Day commemorates the first successful rabies vaccination by Louis Pasteur in 1885 and raises awareness about zoonotic diseases. 

Enormous flocks of red-billed quelea birds sweep across sub-Saharan Africa each year. Though each bird is small, together they can wipe out entire fields of sorghum, millet, rice and wheat within hours.

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global threat. Most discussions about AMR focus on its impact on human and animal health where the effects, and mitigation options, are better studied and understood.

Pulses support the health of plants, animals, people and the environment. Their unique properties make them strategic crops for transforming agrifood systems in line with the One Health approach.

FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH join forces to advance the One Health approach across the Near East, North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean regions.

Zimbabwe concluded a consolidation and lessons learned workshop on combating Antimicrobial Resistance using the One Health approach. 

In Zambia’s rural heartlands, livestock are more than just animals – they're currency, nutrition, and a critical source of income.

This engaging course is designed to raise awareness and deepen understanding of the One Health approach – a collaborative, multisectoral strategy that recognizes the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and the environment.

Farmer field schools are being piloted as innovative interventions to generate high-quality, farm-level data on antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, and production economics.

The concept of One Health is based on the recognition that the health of people, animals and ecosystems are closely interrelated, and FAO promotes this approach as part of agrifood system transformation.