Summary
Recent
concerns expressed by various national and international organisations
about global livestock sector development and its consequences on
the environment and on human and animal health suggest the need
to reinforce efforts to monitor and collect more accurate and detailed
statistics on livestock. Modern technologies for the organisation,
analysis, dissemination and presentation of data and results enhance
the contribution that these statistics can make towards the planning
of efficient and sustainable animal production and health interventions.
To this end, the Food and Agriculture Organization Animal Production
and Health Division (FAO-AGA) has developed the Global Livestock
Impact Mapping System (GLIMS). GLIMS provides a repository for sub-national
data pertaining to the livestock sector and produces and distributes,
through various channels and formats, a number of global public
products, namely: the Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW), mapping
the spatial distribution of the main livestock species, the Global
Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA), disseminating sub-national
geo-referenced statistics, and the AGA Livestock Sector Briefs,
which are concise national reports on the livestock sector. These
products have a variety of applications. The authors focus attention
on applications in the field of animal health, both to increase
knowledge of the occurrence of livestock diseases and to assess
their impact.
Keywords
Animal
health, Application, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, Geographic
information system, GIS, GLIMS, GLiPHA, Global Livestock Impact
Mapping System, Livestock, Modelling, Global Livestock Production
and Health Atlas, Livestock distribution modelling.
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