Video: Invest in prevention - Save money, save lives, save livelihoods

This video, created by the Food Chain Crisis Management Framework of FAO shows why preventing transboundary diseases and pests and threats to the food chain saves lives, saves livelihoods, and saves money.

The human food chain is continuously threatened. Avian influenza, African swine fever, Peste des petits ruminants, locusts, wheat rust and food contaminations (dioxin, salmonella, nuclear incidents, etc.) affect human health, food security and livelihoods around the world.

Changing agro-ecological conditions, intensifying food production systems and the expanding global trade increase the likelihood of animal and plant diseases and pests emerging and spreading farther and faster than ever before, and for unsafe food to reach numerous consumers in distant markets.

With the number of outbreaks constantly increasing, preventing and responding to food chain threats represent unprecedented challenges.

Prevention includes actions such as vaccination, hygiene, good practices, surveillance, early warning, early action, planning, partnerships and collaboration.

The video is produced in six languages.

FCC coordinator’s biographical details:

Dr. Mona S. Chaya is currently the Deputy Strategic Objective Coordinator (Resilience) and Senior Coordinator of the Food Chain Crisis Management Framework at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She worked 13 years in humanitarian field with FAO on agricultural rehabilitation and livelihoods resilience in countries affected by wars and natural disasters (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Afghanistan, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Philippines, Moldova and Myanmar). In addition to her current responsibilities as Senior Coordinator for Food Chain Crises in FAO since 2009, she is member of FAO renewal core team for the new strategic objective ‘Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises’ of the new strategic framework.